CVE-2008-5134

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-10-29
Bugzilla:
470761: CVE-2008-5134 kernel: libertas: fix buffer overrun

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in the lbs_process_bss function in drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c in the libertas subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.5 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via an "invalid beacon/probe response."

Find out more about CVE-2008-5134 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

The issue was addressed in the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server (kernel-rt) RHSA-2009:0053 2009-02-04

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