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        "ID": "CVE-2009-2844",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
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                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "cfg80211 in net/wireless/scan.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.30-rc1 and other versions before 2.6.31-rc6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a sequence of beacon frames in which one frame omits an SSID Information Element (IE) and the subsequent frame contains an SSID IE, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the cmp_ies function.  NOTE: a potential weakness in the is_mesh function was also addressed, but the relevant condition did not exist in the code, so it is not a vulnerability."
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        "reference_data": [
            {
                "name": "36278",
                "refsource": "SECUNIA",
                "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/36278"
            },
            {
                "name": "http://jon.oberheide.org/files/cfg80211-remote-dos.c",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "http://jon.oberheide.org/files/cfg80211-remote-dos.c"
            },
            {
                "name": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd3468bad96c00b5a512f551674f36776129520e",
                "refsource": "CONFIRM",
                "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd3468bad96c00b5a512f551674f36776129520e"
            },
            {
                "name": "[oss-security] 20090817 Re: CVE request: kernel: cfg80211: missing NULL pointer checks",
                "refsource": "MLIST",
                "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/17/2"
            },
            {
                "name": "[oss-security] 20090817 CVE request: kernel: cfg80211: missing NULL pointer checks",
                "refsource": "MLIST",
                "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/17/1"
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            {
                "name": "36052",
                "refsource": "BID",
                "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36052"
            },
            {
                "name": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.30.5",
                "refsource": "CONFIRM",
                "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.30.5"
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