VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2007-5448
CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.97%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-10-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation