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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
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Source: madwifi
Source-Version: 1:0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
madwifi, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
madwifi-doc_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2_all.deb
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi-doc_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2_all.deb
madwifi-source_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2_all.deb
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi-source_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2_all.deb
madwifi_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2.diff.gz
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2.diff.gz
madwifi_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2.dsc
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2.dsc
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated madwifi package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:15:44 +0100
Source: madwifi
Binary: madwifi-doc madwifi-source
Architecture: source all
Version: 1:0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2
Distribution: stable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian madwifi team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
madwifi-doc - documentation for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi
madwifi-source - source for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi
Closes: 446824
Changes:
madwifi (1:0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2) stable; urgency=low
.
* Add 10_CVE-2007-5448_sanitize_xrates.dpatch from 1:0.9.3.2-2 to fix
CVE-2007-5448:
- DoS vulnerability via kassert from poor checking of xrate element in
scan results (Closes: #446824)
Files:
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madwifi_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2.dsc
e318f006bc29fb25b70e952fed4d9429 15509 non-free/net optional
madwifi_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2.diff.gz
42465bcbd432910d2da0ebe3c79209d6 3506650 non-free/net optional
madwifi-source_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2_all.deb
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madwifi-doc_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2_all.deb
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