CVE-2007-5448
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.0% (80th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5424)
- Published
- October 14, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5424 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- madwifi / madwifi
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
- http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27197(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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