Code Execution Bug In Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver 157
2U*U2 writes to mention an EWeek article about an entry in the Month of Kernel Bugs. John Ellch has discovered a critical vulnerability in the Broadcom wireless driver: a driver used in machines from HP, Dell, Gateway, and eMachines. From the article: "[The bug] is a stack-based buffer overflow in the Broadcom BCMWL5.SYS wireless device driver that could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop. The vulnerability is caused by improper handling of 802.11 probe responses containing a long SSID field and can lead to arbitrary kernel-mode code execution. The volunteer ZERT (Zero Day Emergency Response Team) warns that the flaw could be exploited wirelessly if a vulnerable machine is within range of the attacker."
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Code Execution Bug in Broadcom Wi-Fi Windows Driver
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Checklist for today:
Johnny Cache (Score:1, Funny)
"Microsoft's Windows operating system is exploitable without the existence of an access point or any interaction from the user.
The card's background scan of available wireless networks triggers the flaw," the group said.
eWEEK.com Special Report: Mac Security"
The bug was first discovered by wireless security guru Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch, the researcher who was embroiled in a controversy with Apple over similar bugs in the Wi-Fi driver that ships with the Mac OS X.
Checklist for today:
1. Eat
2. Rant on Slashdot
3. Change SSID from "omgomgomg" to "omgomgomgomgomgomgomg"
4. Wait for the muppets to connect.
5. Profit !
Re:But which OS!? (Score:2, Funny)
Please never scare me again like this, for a moment i thought Windows was more secure than Linux...
"BCMWL5.SYS" (Score:5, Funny)