A flaw has been found in a way b43 driver processed incoming frames. An attacker able to send frames to the systems with Broadcom 43xx series wireless devices could use this flaw to crash the systems. Upstream patch: c85ce65ecac078ab1a1835c87c4a6319cf74660a References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32042 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/c85ce65ecac078ab1a1835c87c4a6319cf74660a
Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 as they did not provide support for Broadcom 43xx wireless devices. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1465.html, and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html.
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 748688]
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:1465 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1465.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: MRG for RHEL-6 v.2 Via RHSA-2012:0010 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html