UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4141

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4141

    Published: 1 Jun 2015Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-4141
    Aliases:
    USN-2650-1

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4141, http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/, http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txt, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/4, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2650-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4141

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wpa

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.1-0ubuntu1.3

    Affected versions

    1.0-3ubuntu2

    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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