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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:24:50 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, coley@...us.mitre.org
Subject: Re: CVE request -- kernel: b43: allocate receive buffers
 big enough for max frame len + offset

On 09/14/2011 06:43 PM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> "A flaw has been found in a way b43 driver processed incoming frames. An
> attacker able to send frames to the systems with Broadcom 43xx series
> wireless devices could use this flaw to crash those systems."
> 
> Upstream patch:
> c85ce65ecac078ab1a1835c87c4a6319cf74660a
> 
> References:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738202
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32042
> https://github.com/mirrors/linux/commit/c85ce65ecac078ab1a1835c87c4a6319cf74660a

Please use CVE-2011-3359.

Thanks, Eugene

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