CVE-2008-4395 (GCVE-0-2008-4395)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-06 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:17
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Summary
Multiple buffer overflows in the ndiswrapper module 1.53 for the Linux kernel 2.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending packets over a local wireless network that specify long ESSIDs.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-10-14 00:00
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