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CVE-2007-5938

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5938 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the iwlwifi driver, specifically affecting Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG and Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN products. The flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a kernel panic during module initialization due to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, but only results in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:intel:pro_wireless_3945abg:1.1.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:intel:wireless_wifi_link_4965agn:1.1.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0214 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-5938Important

NULL dereference in iwl driver

Nov 20, 2007

References

article.gmane.org / gmane.linux.drivers.ipw3945.devel/1618
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
osvdb.org / 44749
secunia.com / advisories/29236
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10787
intellinuxwireless.org / repos
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0154.html
securityfocus.com / bid/26842
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/4211