Intel® Centrino Wireless Driver Malformed Frame Privilege Escalation

Summary:

A security vulnerability exists in the Microsoft* Windows* drivers for the Intel® 2100 PRO/Wireless Network Connection Hardware because of the way that driver handles certain requests by applications. The vulnerability could potentially be exploited by injecting specially crafted malicious frames into the driver and with the aid of an application loaded on the local system kernel level privileges could potentially be obtained.

Description:

This flaw is due to a memory corruption while handling requests for capabilities from higher-level protocol drivers or user-level applications.

Affected products: