Intel LAN Driver Buffer Overflow

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Title: Intel® LAN Driver Buffer Overflow Local Privilege Escalation
Intel ID: INTEL-sa-00004
Product family: Intel® Network Protocol Drivers for Intel® Network Adapters
Impact of vulnerability: Elevation of Privilege
Severity rating: Important
Original release: Dec 5, 2006

Details

Summary:
A vulnerability exists in all PCI, PCI-X and PCIe Intel network adapter drivers that could allow unprivileged code executing on an affected system to perform a local privilege escalation.

Description:
This vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow that could be caused by incorrect use of a function call. This condition could allow unauthorized code to be introduced that could be run with kernel-level privileges.

http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-023726.htm

 

[zoglair]

Αυτό το buffer overflow μας καταδιώκει εσαεί. Ευθύνεται για το 90% των προβλημάτων μας.

Κι όλα αυτά γιατί οι προγραμματιστές βαριούνται τη ζωή τους.