CVE-2007-5448 Information

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.

Reference

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