CVE-2006-7179

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ieee80211_input.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly process Channel Switch Announcement Information Elements (CSA IEs), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of communication) via a Channel Switch Count less than or equal to one, triggering a channel change.

Affected products

Madwifi: through 0.9.2; through 0.9.2.1

References

http://dev.lintrack.org/ticket/101
http://madwifi.org/ticket/963
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3
http://secunia.com/advisories/24670
http://secunia.com/advisories/24841
http://secunia.com/advisories/24931
http://secunia.com/advisories/25861
http://secunia.com/advisories/26083
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-15.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
http://www.osvdb.org/34645

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