CVE-2007-5448: Madwifi

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Madwifi Madwifi: up to and including 0.9.3.2

Published 2007-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.