CVE-2007-5448

Impact

Madwifi 0.9.3.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a beacon frame with a large length value in the extended supported rates (xrates) element, which triggers an assertion error, related to net80211/ieee80211_scan_ap.c and net80211/ieee80211_scan_sta.c.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
• http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27197
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27541
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28431
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007
• http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
• http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27197
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27541
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28431
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007
• http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493