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CVE-2011-2517

by Fred · 24/05/2012

Multiple buffer overflows in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability during scan operations with a long SSID value.

Date published : 2012-05-24

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.2

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=208c72f4fe44fe09577e7975ba0e7fa0278f3d03

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