PT-2007-4139 · Madwifi · Madwifi

Published 2007-05-24 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-2829

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MadWifi versions prior to 0.9.3.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system hang. This is achieved by sending crafted length fields in nested 802.3 Ethernet frames within Fast Frame packets, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

Recommendations For MadWifi versions prior to 0.9.3.1, update to version 0.9.3.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2829

Affected Products

Madwifi

References · 17

• http://madwifi.org/ticket/1335 · Patch
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:132 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://madwifi.org/wiki/Security · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2829 · Security Note
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-04.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/36635 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1919 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25339 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25861 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25622 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/470674/100/100/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/24114 · Note