Scientific Linux Security Update : madwifi on SL5.x i386/x86_64

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/ieee80211scanap.c and net80211/ieee80211scansta.c...

CVE-2007-5448

CVE-2007-5448 affects MadWifi 0.9.3.2 and earlier. A remote attacker can trigger a denial of service (kernel panic) by sending a beacon frame with a large length value in the extended supported rates (xrates) element, exploiting code in net80211/ieee80211_scan_ap.c and net80211/ieee80211_scan_sta...