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CVE-2007-5448

Publication date 14 October 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
linux-restricted-modules 8.10 intrepid
Not affected
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 7.04 feisty Ignored end of life, was needed
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22 7.10 gutsy Ignored end of life, was needed
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected