The orinoco driver can send uninitialized data exposing random pieces of the system memory. This happens because data is not padded with zeroes when its length needs to be increased. For the 2.6 upstream fix see http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@43434a71q9eUGtXKCTmWyYIPqFjEUQ However Alan Cox said "skb_padto already does the if() so the extra if (skb->len < len) just wastes resources"
Created attachment 119814 [details] jwltest-orinoco-skb-pad.patch
Test kernels w/ the above patch available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ RHEL4 orinoco users are invited to give them a spin...
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-808.html