madwifi driver security issue...

[Matthias Saou]

Drew Bertola wrote :

> I just saw this on madwifi.org:
> 
> A critical security flaw (CVE-2006-6332
> <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=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
> <http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842>. In addition, we released v0.9.2.1
> (v0.9.2 plus the fix for the issue), which is available for download
> <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82936&package_id=85233>
> from sf.net.
> 
> Since the latest freshrpms release is 0.9.2, I thought I should pass
> this on.
> 
> http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue

Thanks for letting me know! I've updated the packages to 0.9.2.1.

Matthias

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