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  2. USN-479-1

USN-479-1: MadWifi vulnerabilities

Publication date

29 June 2007

Overview

MadWifi vulnerabilities

Releases

Details

Multiple flaws in the MadWifi driver were discovered that could lead
to a system crash. A physically near-by attacker could generate
specially crafted wireless network traffic and cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2006-7177, CVE-2006-7178, CVE-2006-7179, CVE-2007-2829,
CVE-2007-2830)

A flaw was discovered in the MadWifi driver that would allow unencrypted
network traffic to be sent prior to finishing WPA authentication.
A physically near-by attacker could capture this, leading to a loss of
privacy, denial of service, or network spoofing. (CVE-2006-7180)

A flaw was discovered in the MadWifi driver’s ioctl handling. A local
attacker could read kernel memory, or crash the system, leading to a
denial of...

Multiple flaws in the MadWifi driver were discovered that could lead
to a system crash. A physically near-by attacker could generate
specially crafted wireless network traffic and cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2006-7177, CVE-2006-7178, CVE-2006-7179, CVE-2007-2829,
CVE-2007-2830)

A flaw was discovered in the MadWifi driver that would allow unencrypted
network traffic to be sent prior to finishing WPA authentication.
A physically near-by attacker could capture this, leading to a loss of
privacy, denial of service, or network spoofing. (CVE-2006-7180)

A flaw was discovered in the MadWifi driver’s ioctl handling. A local
attacker could read kernel memory, or crash the system, leading to a
denial of service. (CVE-2007-2831)

Update instructions

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes.

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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
7.04 feisty linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-powerpc64-smp –  2.6.20.5-16.29
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-386 –  2.6.20.5-16.29
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-lowlatency –  2.6.20.5-16.29
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-sparc64-smp –  2.6.20.5-16.29
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-sparc64 –  2.6.20.5-16.29
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-powerpc –  2.6.20.5-16.29
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic –  2.6.20.5-16.29
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-powerpc-smp –  2.6.20.5-16.29
6.10 edgy linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-11-sparc64 –  2.6.17.8-11.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-11-sparc64-smp –  2.6.17.8-11.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-11-powerpc64-smp –  2.6.17.8-11.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-11-powerpc –  2.6.17.8-11.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-11-generic –  2.6.17.8-11.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-11-powerpc-smp –  2.6.17.8-11.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-11-386 –  2.6.17.8-11.2
6.06 dapper linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-686 –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-amd64-k8 –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-amd64-xeon –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-k7 –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-sparc64 –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-sparc64-smp –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-powerpc-smp –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-amd64-generic –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-386 –  2.6.15.12-28.2
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-powerpc –  2.6.15.12-28.2

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