madwifi_ng: security issue, CVE-2006-6332

madwifi_ng: security issue, CVE-2006-6332

[Jamie Lenehan]

Anyone using madwifi should upgrade to r1844-20061208 to get the fix for
CVE-2006-6332. From the announcement on madwifi.org:

 Release 0.9.2.1 fixes critical security issue

 A critical security flaw (CVE-2006-6332) has been discovered which can be
 exploited from remote and allows arbitrary code injection. The fix has been
 committed to trunk in r1842. In addition, we released v0.9.2.1 (v0.9.2 plus
 the fix for the issue), which is available for download from sf.net.

 All users should upgrade as soon as possible.


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From: openembedded-commits@lists.openembedded.org ("lenehan commit")
Subject: [oe-commits] org.oe.dev madwifi-ng r1844: Add svn snapshot 1844
	which is the same as the 0.9.2.1
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:58:12 +0100

madwifi-ng r1844: Add svn snapshot 1844 which is the same as the 0.9.2.1
release. This includes a critical fix for CVE-2006-6332 which is a remotely
exploitable stack-based buffer overflow bug.

Author: lenehan@openembedded.org
Branch: org.openembedded.dev
Revision: af1d7cf6768b5e5205f07a7a63b6767971ccb1b7
ViewMTN: http://monotone.openembedded.org/revision.psp?id=af1d7cf6768b5e5205f07a7a63b6767971ccb1b7
Files:
1
packages/madwifi/madwifi-ng-r1844-20061208
packages/madwifi/madwifi-ng-r1844-20061208/10-xscale-be-elf-copts.patch
packages/madwifi/madwifi-ng-r1844-20061208/10-xscale-le-elf-copts.patch
packages/madwifi/madwifi-ng_r1844-20061208.bb
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 Jamie Lenehan <lenehan@twibble.org>