CVE-2007-2831 Information

Description

Array index error in the (1) ieee80211_ioctl_getwmmparams and (2) ieee80211_ioctl_setwmmparams functions in net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) possibly obtain kernel memory contents and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large negative array index value.

Reference

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1334 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Security http://osvdb.org/36637 http://secunia.com/advisories/25339 http://secunia.com/advisories/25622 http://secunia.com/advisories/25763 http://secunia.com/advisories/25861 http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-04.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:132 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470674/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24114 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1919 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34453