Package name madwifi-source
Date January 10th, 2008
Advisory ID MDVSA-2008:007
Affected versions 2007.0, 2007.1, 2008.0
Synopsis Updated madwifi-source, wpa_supplicant packages fix vulnerabilities

Problem Description

MadWifi prior to 0.9.3.3 allowed 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 would trigger
an assertion error.

Updated packages have been updated to 0.9.3.3 to correct this
issue. Wpa_supplicant is built using madwifi-source and has been
rebuilt using 0.9.3.3 source.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2007

 994e5a529757654404fe20c659f01a81  2007.0/i586/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm
 96337298e1b19ebf0680b704bb37aabc  2007.0/i586/wpa_gui-0.5.5-2.3mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 b71e1f08dcecac80668c1e6486ef85e8  2007.0/i586/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.3mdv2007.0.i586.rpm 
 e228e88670cae478d7f025013e21d487  2007.0/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
 ca8ad7710dc3f8f3a659de1c480b7f4a  2007.0/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.3mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64

 9474e50b228b594ed8a8ee31d85c2a13  2007.0/x86_64/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm
 d0fab326d4ebcccb814e7afc78c62023  2007.0/x86_64/wpa_gui-0.5.5-2.3mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 2b8ea9b48f395ff7f407774444989dfc  2007.0/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.3mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm 
 e228e88670cae478d7f025013e21d487  2007.0/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
 ca8ad7710dc3f8f3a659de1c480b7f4a  2007.0/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.3mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1

 f7e6a1f9fcf31eace993c3732fff56e2  2007.1/i586/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm
 8be4e877f8f1302312fc8e87204099c0  2007.1/i586/wpa_gui-0.5.7-1.3mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 11e5d5478132946e0ba0af05b4a95d93  2007.1/i586/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-1.3mdv2007.1.i586.rpm 
 dfdd7c77a9613d4617581202835dae8b  2007.1/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
 6d3ac2467ad746a431cb7ba29d223490  2007.1/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-1.3mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64

 1d02ba56908361b47b734744037aacf9  2007.1/x86_64/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm
 51a6280d852c1a0cdd7068e79138e4ac  2007.1/x86_64/wpa_gui-0.5.7-1.3mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 56666aee7b298754788cfdbd983b9fdb  2007.1/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-1.3mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 
 dfdd7c77a9613d4617581202835dae8b  2007.1/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
 6d3ac2467ad746a431cb7ba29d223490  2007.1/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-1.3mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0

 e854f61c347877fd0ee65bc2c0218337  2008.0/i586/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
 e04b222093d69d2049c7439dd2e806b1  2008.0/i586/wpa_gui-0.6.0-1.2mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
 e43ac8caaada63eeaacf980eebe14ceb  2008.0/i586/wpa_supplicant-0.6.0-1.2mdv2008.0.i586.rpm 
 a2aa4eb6917a165427de69725064e8b7  2008.0/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm
 fd704402aad00c89cc23d22a78e892c4  2008.0/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.6.0-1.2mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64

 90194015eb52160071fd74743ef6c198  2008.0/x86_64/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2008.0.noarch.rpm
 f041b8320f9f363b58d3c548312151b0  2008.0/x86_64/wpa_gui-0.6.0-1.2mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
 3f76dbf8e0758bd949713f224142038c  2008.0/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-0.6.0-1.2mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm 
 a2aa4eb6917a165427de69725064e8b7  2008.0/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3.3-1.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm
 fd704402aad00c89cc23d22a78e892c4  2008.0/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.6.0-1.2mdv2008.0.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5448

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