CVE-2007-5448 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a system panic via a malformed beacon frame in Madwifi wireless drivers, requiring a driver upgrade.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-5448?
CVE-2007-5448 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Oct 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-5448?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Madwifi Madwifi.
How do I fix CVE-2007-5448?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-5448 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-5448 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5448 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jwx5-frfj-fvw3.