oss-security - CVE request: kernel: libertas: fix buffer overrun

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:19:52 +0800
From: "Eugene Teo" <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: CVE request: kernel: libertas: fix buffer overrun

Hi,

We need a CVE name for this issue. This was committed in upstream
kernel recently.

"If somebody sends an invalid beacon/probe response, that can trash
the whole BSS descriptor. The descriptor is, luckily, large enough so
that it cannot scribble past the end of it; it's well above 400 bytes
long.

Upstream commit: 48735d8d8bd701b1e0cd3d49c21e5e385ddcb077

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470761
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/23049

Thanks, Eugene

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