CVE-2007-5448

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Madwifi: through 0.9.3.2

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736
http://secunia.com/advisories/27197
http://secunia.com/advisories/27541
http://secunia.com/advisories/28431
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007
http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493

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