Wireless Penetration Testing Series Part 2: Basic concepts of WLANs

Wireless Penetration Testing Series Part 2: Basic concepts of WLANs This blog post is in continuation of the Wireless Penetration Testing and Hacking series we started Part 1: Getting Started with Monitoring and Injection on the basis of the "SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert" SWSE course which ...

kernel: nl80211: missing check for valid SSID size in scan operations

Multiple buffer overflows in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability during scan operations with a long SSID value...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1286-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1286-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12861.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1286-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1285-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1285-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12851.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1285-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

USN-1285-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1278-1)

It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. CVE-2011-1585 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1272-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1272-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12721.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1272-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1278-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for linux-mvl-dove USN-1274-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1274-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12741.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-mvl-dove USN-1274-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.n...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1269-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1269-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12691.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1269-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Th...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-natty USN-1279-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1279-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12791.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-natty USN-1279-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1274-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1272-1)

It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. CVE-2011-1585 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support...

USN-1274-1: Linux kernel (Marvell DOVE) vulnerabilities

Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-2491 Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the...

Google to Allow Users to Opt Out of WiFi Location Mapping System

Google, which has faced a pile of criticism over its privacy policies and practices, especially as they relate to wireless and mobile devices, says it is changing the way that it maps people’s wireless access points in its efforts to provide accurate location information. The company said it is n...

CVE-2011-2517

Multiple buffer overflows in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability during scan operations with a long SSID value...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-2517

Multiple buffer overflows in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability during scan operations with a long SSID value...

kernel: nl80211: missing check for valid SSID size in scan operations

Multiple buffer overflows in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability during scan operations with a long SSID value...

kernel: nl80211: missing check for valid SSID size in scan operations

Multiple buffer overflows in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability during scan operations with a long SSID value...

PT-2011-3911 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.39.2 Description: The issue is related to multiple buffer overflows in the Linux kernel, specifically in the net/wireless/nl80211.c file. This can be exploited by local users who have the CAP NET ADMIN...