CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4395
8.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.3 HIGH — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in the ndiswrapper module 1.53 for the Linux kernel 2.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending packets over a local wireless network that specify long ESSIDs.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6
• ubuntu linux kernel (<= 2.6.26)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239371 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=49945b423c2f7e33b4c579ca460df6a806ee8f9f git.frugalware.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32509 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git%40frugalware.org/msg22366.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32118 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021142 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-662-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-662-2 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2008-4395 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/275860 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46437 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239371 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=49945b423c2f7e33b4c579ca460df6a806ee8f9f git.frugalware.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32509 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git%40frugalware.org/msg22366.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32118 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021142 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-662-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-662-2 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2008-4395 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/275860 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46437 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com