CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2829

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2007-05-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-05-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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 configurations

• madwifi madwifi (<= 0.9.3) • madwifi madwifi 0.9.0 • madwifi madwifi 0.9.1 • madwifi madwifi 0.9.2 • madwifi madwifi 0.9.2.1

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