Vulnerability in Madwifi
CVE-2007-2829
The 802.11 network stack in net80211/ieee80211_input.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted length field in nested 802.3 Ethernet frames in Fast Frame packets, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.033 (88.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Madwifi — versions 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2
References
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-04.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/25339 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/24114 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/26083 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/25622 (third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/25763 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- madwifi.org/wiki/Security (Patch)