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CVE-2015-4144

The EAP-pwd server and peer implementation in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 does not validate that a message is long enough to contain the Total-Length field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message.

Published

2015-06-15T15:59:08.790

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	13.1	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	13.2	Yes
Application	w1.fi	hostapd	1.0	Yes
Application	w1.fi	hostapd	1.1	Yes
Application	w1.fi	hostapd	2.0	Yes
Application	w1.fi	hostapd	2.1	Yes
Application	w1.fi	hostapd	2.2	Yes
Application	w1.fi	hostapd	2.3	Yes
Application	w1.fi	hostapd	2.4	Yes
Application	w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	1.0	Yes
Application	w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	1.1	Yes
Application	w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	2.0	Yes
Application	w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	2.1	Yes
Application	w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	2.2	Yes
Application	w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	2.3	Yes
Application	w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	2.4	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/eap-pwd-missing-payload-length-validation.txt Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/6 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2650-1 ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/eap-pwd-missing-payload-length-validation.txt Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/6 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2650-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)