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
Technical Description
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.
