Bug 385861 (CVE-2007-5938)

Summary:	CVE-2007-5938 NULL dereference in iwl driver
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cra, gnichols, johnp, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, kreilly, linville, rt-maint, vdanen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5938
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Bug Blocks:	401421, 401431

Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-15 22:42:48 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-5938 to the following vulnerability:

There is a NULL dereference vulnerability in function iwl_set_rate() in compatible/iwl3945-base.c. See References for original advisory:

References:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199209

Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2009-10-23 19:03:05 UTC

Reporter changed to security-response-team by request of Jay Turner.

Comment 9 Vincent Danen 2010-04-08 21:11:39 UTC

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4 due to not including the iwlwifi driver.  It did affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and was addressed via:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0154.html

and

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html