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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-5448: MadWifi: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-5448: MadWifi: Denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/14/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-wireless-madwifi-ng

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