[dundee] Wifi exploit

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130717-pg,1/article.html

Wi-Fi Bug Found in Linux A major Linux Wi-Fi driver contains a bug that can
allow an attacker to take control of a laptop--even when it is not on a
Wi-Fi network. Peter Judge, Techworld.com Friday, April 13, 2007 01:00 PM
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A bug has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an
attacker to take control of a laptop -- even when it is not on a Wi-Fi
network.

There have not been many Linux Wi-Fi device drivers, and this is apparently
the first remotely executable Wi-Fi bug. It affects the widely used MadWi-Fi
Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wi-Fi chipsets, according to
Laurent Butti, a researcher from France Telecom Orange, who found the flaw
and released the information in a presentation at last month's Black Hat
conference in Amsterdam.

"You may be vulnerable if you do not manually patch your MadWi-Fi driver,"
said Butti. Before making it public, he shared the flaw with the MadWi-Fi
development team, who have released a patch. However, not all Linux
distributions have yet built the patch into their code, said Butti.


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