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CVE-2007-5448

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Madwifi — Madwifi

CWEs

References

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