Bug#446824: CVE-2007-5448 remote denial of service via crafted beacon frame

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Nico Golde <nion at debian.org> [2007-10-16 17:59]:
> Hi Kel,
> * Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> [2007-10-16 17:14]:
> > tags 446824 pending
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:37:31 am Nico Golde wrote:
> > > | 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.
> > 
> > net80211/ieee80211_scan_ap.c in not vulnerable in any stable release from 
> > madwifi.org[0], the CVE is slightly misleading in regards to that detail.
> 
> Well I never said it is :) But thanks for the information, I 
> checked this and added it as not-affected to the security 
> tracker.

Correction, I misunderstood you, thanks Moritz for pointing 
me to this. At least the code in ieee80211_scan_sta.c is 
vulnerable in the Debian versions if I don't miss anything.
Kind regards
Nico
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