CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-5448

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2007-10-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-10-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
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 configurations

• madwifi madwifi (<= 0.9.3.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References