Executive Summary

Summary
Title NDISwrapper: Arbitrary remote code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-200901-01 First vendor Publication 2009-01-11
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-01-11
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 8.3 Attack Range Adjacent network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 6.5 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple buffer overflows might lead to remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

Background

NDISwrapper is a Linux kernel module that enables the use of Microsoft Windows drivers for wireless network devices.

Description

Anders Kaseorg reported multiple buffer overflows related to long ESSIDs.

Impact

A physically proximate attacker could send packets over a wireless network that might lead to the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All NDISwrapper users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.53-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-4395 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4395

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-01.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-01.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13632
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13632
Title: DSA-1731-1 ndiswrapper -- buffer overflow
Description: Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper suffers from buffer overflows via specially crafted wireless network traffic, due to incorrectly handling long ESSIDs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.28-1+etch1. For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2, which was already included in the lenny release. For the testing distribution and the unstable distribution , this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1731-1
CVE-2008-4395
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): ndiswrapper
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17633
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17633
Title: USN-662-2 -- linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/24 vulnerability
Description: USN-662-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ndiswrapper in Ubuntu 8.10.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-662-2
CVE-2008-4395
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Product(s): linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17666
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17666
Title: USN-662-1 -- linux vulnerability
Description: It was discovered that the Linux kernel could be made to hang temporarily when mounting corrupted ext2/3 filesystems.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-662-1
CVE-2008-3528
CVE-2008-4395
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 8.10
Product(s): linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8321
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8321
Title: DSA-1731 ndiswrapper -- buffer overflow
Description: Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper suffers from buffer overflows via specially crafted wireless network traffic, due to incorrectly handling long ESSIDs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1731
CVE-2008-4395
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): ndiswrapper
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for ndiswrapper
File : nvt/sles9p5039260.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerability USN-662-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_662_1.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/24 vulnerability USN-662-2
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_662_2.nasl
2009-03-07 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1731-1 (ndiswrapper)
File : nvt/deb_1731_1.nasl
2009-01-13 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200901-01 (ndiswrapper)
File : nvt/glsa_200901_01.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
49726 Linux Kernel ndiswrapper Module ESSID Handling Multiple Remote Overflows

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2011-01-27 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_ndiswrapper-5834.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12315.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_ndiswrapper-081107.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-662-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-662-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1731.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-12 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200901-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_ndiswrapper-5833.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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