kernel

2007-11-12

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Author: vmiklos
Vulnerable: 2.6.22-7sayshell1
Unaffected: 2.6.22-7sayshell2

A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-two error within the function “ieee80211_rx()” in net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c. This can be exploited to cause a kernel panic by sending a specially crafted ieee80211 frame with the IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA flag set to an affected system.

Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2562

CVEs:

CVE-2007-4997