CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-2829

Published: May 24, 2007 | Modified: Oct 16, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Madwifi Madwifi * 0.9.3 (including)
Madwifi Madwifi 0.9.0 (including) 0.9.0 (including)
Madwifi Madwifi 0.9.1 (including) 0.9.1 (including)
Madwifi Madwifi 0.9.2 (including) 0.9.2 (including)
Madwifi Madwifi 0.9.2.1 (including) 0.9.2.1 (including)
Linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper *
Linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17 Ubuntu edgy *
Linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 Ubuntu feisty *

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