On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 16:25 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Jonathan wrote:

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I came across this in the news today, it seems to be a pretty big security hole in ndiswrapper.

"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."

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4395 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/275860

Probably. File a bug report in the bug tracker and we'll get on it

ok, done: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12023