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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5448
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/37182 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27541 Secunia Advisory: SA28431 Secunia Advisory: SA27197 MISC http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml CONFIRM http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded BID 26052

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