CVE-2007-5448
N/A
Published: October 14, 2007 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMadwifi
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (13)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27197Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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