CVE-2007-2831 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-2831 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 280860 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:014, published Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:47:56 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:21:05 2023