CVE-2015-4141
The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0.7.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative chunk length, which triggers an out-of-bounds…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.99%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0.7.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative chunk length, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 2.99% probability · 87th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- w1.fi/wpa supplicant · w1.fi/hostapd · opensuse/opensuse
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txtVendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/4Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6Mailing List
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2650-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txtVendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/4Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6Mailing List
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2650-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.