CVE-2007-2831

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Array index error in the (1) ieee80211_ioctl_getwmmparams and (2) ieee80211_ioctl_setwmmparams functions in net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash), possibly obtain kernel memory contents, and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large negative array index value.

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/1334
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Security
http://osvdb.org/36637
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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