CVE-2007-2829

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The 802.11 network stack in net80211/ieee80211_input.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted length field in nested 802.3 Ethernet frames in Fast Frame packets, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Madwifi: through 0.9.3; 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.2.1

References

http://madwifi.org/ticket/1335
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Security
http://osvdb.org/36635
http://secunia.com/advisories/25339
http://secunia.com/advisories/25622
http://secunia.com/advisories/25763
http://secunia.com/advisories/25861
http://secunia.com/advisories/26083
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-04.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:132
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470674/100/100/threaded

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