CVE-2008-4395
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.
- EPSS
- 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- ubuntu:linux_kernel
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239371
- http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=49945b423c2f7e33b4c579ca460df6a806ee8f9f
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32509
- http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git%40frugalware.org/msg22366.html