Security Round-Up: Dell Updates Broadcom Drivers, NetGear Exploit Released
16th Nov 2006, 20:51 GMT
Dell has released a 52 MB patch for its affected drivers: The company lists a wide array of adapters including Dell Wireless 1350, 1370, 1390, 1450, and 1500, and the TrueMobile 1300 and 1400 series of mini-PCI and PC Cards. That's one huge download to replace what's apparently not a ton of code. But it must include all the associated software that runs the system, too, as well as every patch for every device. The flaw in Broadcom's drivers can allow a proximate user to crash or own a system; Broadcom released patches to manufacturers some weeks ago, and they will now appear quite rapidly for end user and corporate customers, I would guess. [Thanks to Paul D. for the link.] The Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) releases No. 16, affecting the NetGear WG111v2's driver: The report says this is a USB adapter the driver for which responds to a "stack-based buffer overflow" when a beacon request receives an overlong response. This does not require network association, as beacons are sent without association. There's no patch at this writing.
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