Published: 30/03/2007 Updated: 16/10/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 694

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

ieee80211_input.c in MadWifi prior to 0.9.3 does not properly process Channel Switch Announcement Information Elements (CSA IEs), which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (loss of communication) via a Channel Switch Count less than or equal to one, triggering a channel change.

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Multiple flaws in the MadWifi driver were discovered that could lead to a system crash A physically near-by attacker could generate specially crafted wireless network traffic and cause a denial of service (CVE-2006-7177, CVE-2006-7178, CVE-2006-7179, CVE-2007-2829, CVE-2007-2830) ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://dev.lintrack.org/ticket/101 http://madwifi.org/ticket/963 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3 http://secunia.com/advisories/24670 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23436 http://secunia.com/advisories/24841 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-15.xml http://secunia.com/advisories/24931 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 http://www.osvdb.org/34645 http://secunia.com/advisories/25861 http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1187 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded https://usn.ubuntu.com/479-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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