CVE-2007-5938

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-11-20
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
385861: CVE-2007-5938 NULL dereference in iwl driver

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The iwl_set_rate function in compatible/iwl3945-base.c in iwlwifi 1.1.21 and earlier dereferences an iwl_get_hw_mode return value without checking for NULL, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via unspecified vectors during module initialization.

Find out more about CVE-2007-5938 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2008:0154 2008-03-05

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