[Full-disclosure] EEYE: Intel Network Adapter Driver Local Privilege Escalation

[Randal T. Rioux]

Josh Bressers wrote:
>> eEye Research - http://research.eeye.com
>>
>> Intel Network Adapter Driver Local Privilege Escalation
>>
>> Release Date:
>> December 7, 2006
>>
>> Date Reported:
>> July 10, 2006
>>
>> Severity:
>> Medium (Local Privilege Escalation to Kernel)
>>
>> Systems Affected:
>> Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
>>     Intel PRO 10/100   - 8.0.27.0 or previous
>>     Intel PRO/1000     - 8.7.1.0  or previous
>>     Intel PRO/1000 PCI - 9.1.30.0 or previous
>> Linux
>>     Intel PRO 10/100   - 3.5.14  or previous
>>     Intel PRO/1000     - 7.2.7   or previous
>>     Intel PRO/10GbE    - 1.0.109 or previous
>> UnixWare/SCO6
>>     Intel PRO 10/100   - 4.0.3  or previous
>>     Intel PRO/1000     - 9.0.15 or previous
> 
> It's worth noting that this advisory is misleading.  This flaw does not
> affect the Linux drivers.  The Linux drivers do not support the NDIS API
> and the OID concept that Windows does.
> 

Thanks for the confirmation... I thought I had gone mad for a bit there.
It just didn't sound right. The version numbers threw me off. Does
anyone know how these specific Linux driver version numbers were determined?

Randy