National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0282
Original release date:01/27/2009
Last revised:02/05/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in Ralink Technology USB wireless adapter (RT73) 3.08 for Windows, and other wireless card drivers including rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, and rt61, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Probe Request packet with a long SSID, possibly related to an integer signedness error.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (02/02/2009)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.
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External Source: BID
Name: 33340
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090118 Ralinktech wireless cards drivers vulnerability
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1714
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1713
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1712
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200907-08
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35743
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33699
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33592
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512995