CVE-2007-2830 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2830
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Description: The ath_beacon_config function in if_ath.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted beacon interval information when scanning for access points, which triggers a divide-by-zero error.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34451 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA26083 Secunia Advisory: SA25861 Secunia Advisory: SA25339 Secunia Advisory: SA25763 Secunia Advisory: SA25622 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:132 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-04.xml CONFIRM http://madwifi.org/ticket/1270 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Security BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/470674/100/100/threaded BID 24114

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