certfr_avis - certa-2007-avi-491

CERTA-2007-AVI-491

Vulnerability from certfr_avis

Une vulnérabilité permettant de réaliser un déni de service a été découverte dans les pilotes MadWifi.

Description

Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans les pilotes sans-fil Madwifi. Cette vulnérabilité est due à une mauvaise gestion des paquets contenant un élément xrates. Par le biais d'un paquet spécialement construit il est ainsi possible de causer un déni de service sur l'interface sans-fil utilisant le pilote vulnérable.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

Pilotes MadWifi version 0.9.3.2 et versions antérieures.

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2007-5448 (GCVE-0-2007-5448)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2007-10-14 18:00

Modified

2024-08-07 15:31

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://secunia.com/advisories/27197	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182	vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SREASON
	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded	mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493	vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
	http://secunia.com/advisories/27541	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://secunia.com/advisories/28431	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://www.sec-consult.com/298.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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Author	Source	Type	Date

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