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CVE-2007-5448

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2007-10-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Madwifi Madwifi

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References