Bug 385861 (CVE-2007-5938) - CVE-2007-5938 NULL dereference in iwl driver
Summary: CVE-2007-5938 NULL dereference in iwl driver
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-5938
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks: 401421 401431
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Reported: 2007-11-15 22:42 UTC by Red Hat Product Security
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-04-08 21:11:39 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0154 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2008-03-05 13:58:42 UTC

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
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