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.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2007-5424 | 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. |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T15:31:58.645Z
Reserved: 2007-10-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2007-5448
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Status : Modified
Published: 2007-10-14T18:17:00.000
Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467
Link: CVE-2007-5448
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD