CVE-2007-5448

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.

Category

4.3
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 2.18% Top 20%
Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory secunia.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/27197 patch vendor advisory third party advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007 vendor advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182 vdb entry
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225 third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded mailing list
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/27541 third party advisory
http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736 patch
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml vendor advisory
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
http://secunia.com/advisories/28431 third party advisory
http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2007-5448?
CVE-2007-5448 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2007-5448?
To fix CVE-2007-5448, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2007-5448 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2007-5448 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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