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    CVE-2007-5448

    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.

    Published:Oct 14, 2007
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Oct 14, 2007
    EPSS Score:0.0245
    CVSS Score:4.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Madwifi
    Product
    Madwifi

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2007-2831 (CVSS 10) — Array index error in the (1) ieee80211_ioctl_getwmmparams and (2) ieee80211_ioctl_setwmmparams functions in ne…
    CVE-2007-2830 (CVSS 5) — The ath_beacon_config function in if_ath.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial…
    CVE-2007-2829 (CVSS 5) — The 802.11 network stack in net80211/ieee80211_input.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3.1 allows remote attackers to ca…
    CVE-2006-7178 (CVSS 7.8) — MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly handle reception of an AUTH frame by an IBSS node, which allows remote …
    CVE-2006-7177 (CVSS 7.8) — MadWifi, when Ad-Hoc mode is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via uns…
    CVE-2006-7179 (CVSS 7.8) — ieee80211_input.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly process Channel Switch Announcement Information El…
    CVE-2006-7180 (CVSS 6.8) — ieee80211_output.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3 sends unencrypted packets before WPA authentication succeeds, which…
    CVE-2006-6332 (CVSS 7.5) — Stack-based buffer overflow in net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c in MadWifi before 0.9.2.1 allows remote attackers…
    CVE-2005-4835 (CVSS 7.1) — The ath_rate_sample function in the ath_rate/sample/sample.c sample code in MadWifi before 0.9.3 allows remote…

    References

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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High