CVE-2007-5448

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2007-5448

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2007-10-14T18:17:00

Last Modified Date
2018-10-15T21:44:54

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-20	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:madwifi:madwifi::::::::	1	OR		0.9.3.2

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

References

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

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5448
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5448

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 18:20:04				Added to TrackCVE