Package: madwifi-source Severity: grave Tags: security patch Hi, the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was published for madwifi-source.
CVE-2007-5448[0]: | 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. If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id in your changelog entry. This is fixed in upstream svn on: http://madwifi.org/changeset/2736 For further information: [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5448 Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://ngolde.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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