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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27197 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182 ↗
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27541 ↗
- http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736 ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml ↗
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28431 ↗
- http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html ↗