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.
Published: 2007-10-14
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 2.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD 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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

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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