>> Atheros Wireless Driver Management Frames Handling Denial of Service Issue
Title : Atheros Wireless Driver Management Frames Handling Denial of Service Issue VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2756 CVE ID : CVE-2007-2927
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-08-02
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Atheros Wireless drivers, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing malformed management frames, which could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker within transmitting range of an affected wireless adapter to create a denial of service condition by sending a specially crafted 802.11 management frame to that adapter.
