CVE-2007-5448

Published Oct 14, 2007

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:madwifi:madwifi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "817F054B-BF7F-4B2E-B2BF-E58D67A3B101",
            "versionEndIncluding": "0.9.3.2"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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