Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 14, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-5448
CVE-2007-5448
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.
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Affected products
2Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
13- madwifi.org/changeset/2736nvdPatch
- secunia.com/advisories/27197nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cginvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27541nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/28431nvd
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3225nvd
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xmlnvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.sec-consult.com/298.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182nvd
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