CVE-2015-4141

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    CVE-2015-4141

    Published: 15 Jun 2015Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.html, http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txt, http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2650-1, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/4, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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