MadWifi xrates denial of service
| madwifi-xrates-dos (37182) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
MadWifi is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the handling of beacon frames. By sending a specially-crafted beacon frame containing an overly large length value in the xrates, a remote attacker could cause the driver to exit resulting in a kernel panic.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 4.3 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3.2 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the fixed version of MadWifi, available from the MadWifi.org SVN Repository. See References.
For other distributions:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.
References:
- MadWifi Web site: MadWifi.
- MadWifi.org SVN Repository: MadWifi.
- SEC-CONSULT Security Advisory 20071012-0: Madwifi xrates element remote DOS.
- BID-26052: MadWifi Xrates Element Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-5448: 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.
- GLSA-200711-09: MadWifi: Denial of Service
- MDVSA-2008:007: Updated madwifi-source, wpa_supplicant packages fix vulnerabilities
- SA27197: MadWifi "xrates" Element Denial of Service
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-3493: MadWifi Extended Supported Rates Element Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Gentoo Linux
- Madwifi Driver Madwifi Driver 0.9.3.2
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
Reported:
Oct 11, 2007
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