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>> NetGear MA521 Wireless Driver Rates Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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Title : NetGear MA521 Wireless Driver Rates Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4604
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6059
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-20
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A vulnerability has been identified in NetGear MA521 Wireless Driver, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error in the "MA521nd5.SYS" driver when handling frames containing an invalid supported rates information element, which could be exploited by attackers within range of a vulnerable Wi-Fi station to execute arbitrary commands with kernel-level privileges.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Laurent Butti
ChangeLog
2006-11-20 : Initial release
2007-01-03 : Updated Solution
Vulnerability Management
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