CVE-2007-5448

N/A Unknown
Published: October 14, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/27197
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27541
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/28431
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/27197
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27541
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/28431
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

26 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
2.0%
78th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

Affected Vendors

madwifi

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