Month of Kernel Bugs - day 1

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

FROM: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html

What's the purpose of the "MoKB" ?
   Publish one bug on daily basis for the month of November, 2006.
Show tools and procedures useful for testing the strength and quality
of kernel code (ex. networking, filesystem handling) in existing
operating systems (Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, GNU/Linux, etc).

<snip to the first bug, remember people saying David Maynor and Johnny
Cache didnt have jack?>

Apple Airport 802.11 Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption    The
Apple Airport driver provided with Orinoco-based Airport cards
(1999-2003 PowerBooks, iMacs) is vulnerable to a remote memory
corruption flaw that can lead to arbitrary code execution.
        Metasploit Exploit Module       Mac OS X with Apple Airport 802.11
(Orinoco-based)         MOKB-0

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Cant wait till tomorrow!

-JP
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