Bug#446824: CVE-2007-5448 remote denial of service via crafted beacon frame

[Nico Golde]

Package: madwifi-source
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for madwifi-source.

CVE-2007-5448[0]:
| 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.

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

This is fixed in upstream svn on:
http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5448

Kind regards
Nico

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