vendor:
Airport
by:
hdm
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Remote Memory Corruption
CWE
Product Name: Airport
Affected Version From:
Affected Version To:
Patch Exists: NO
Related CWE:
CPE:
Platforms Tested:
Apple Airport 802.11 Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption
The Apple Airport driver provided with Orinoco-based Airport cards (1999-2003 PowerBooks, iMacs) is vulnerable to a remote memory corruption flaw. When the driver is placed into active scanning mode, a malformed probe response frame can be used to corrupt internal kernel structures, leading to arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability is triggered when a probe response frame is received that does not contain valid information element (IE) fields after the fixed-length header. The data following the fixed-length header is copied over internal kernel structures, resulting in memory operations being performed on attacker-controlled pointer values.
Mitigation:
Unknown