CVE-2006-7179 Information

Description

ieee80211_input.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly process Channel Switch Announcement Information Elements (CSA IEs) which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of communication) via a Channel Switch Count less than or equal to one triggering a channel change.

Reference

http://dev.lintrack.org/ticket/101 http://madwifi.org/ticket/963 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3 http://secunia.com/advisories/24670 http://secunia.com/advisories/24841 http://secunia.com/advisories/24931 http://secunia.com/advisories/25861 http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-15.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html http://www.osvdb.org/34645 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23436 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1187