Vulnerability CVE-2007-5448
Published: 2007-10-14   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Madwifi xrates element remote DOS
Bernhard Mueller
14.10.2007

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Madwifi -> Madwifi 

 References:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736
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
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182
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