01 Record
CVE-2007-5448
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.96% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 80.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-10-14 18:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:31Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-10-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ffc274f608b88e8528b11170a0cb6cf477fa305b270be87858630a90576a50e0
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com26052http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26052
- secunia.com27197http://secunia.com/advisories/27197
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:007http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:007
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commadwifi-xrates-dos(37182)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37182
- securityreason.com3225http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3225
- www.securityfocus.com20071012 SEC Consult SA-20071012-0 :: Madwifi xrates element remote DOShttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482168/100/0/threaded
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-3493http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3493
- secunia.com27541http://secunia.com/advisories/27541
- madwifi.orghttp://madwifi.org/changeset/2736
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200711-09http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-09.xml
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195705
- secunia.com28431http://secunia.com/advisories/28431
- www.sec-consult.comhttp://www.sec-consult.com/298.html