CVE-2012-4445 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Hostapd
CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer10 documents8 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
5.3%
top 9.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 10
Latest updateMay 17
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the eap_server_tls_process_fragment function in eap_server_tls_common.c in the EAP authentication server in hostapd 0.6 through 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or abort) via a small "TLS Message Length" value in an EAP-TLS message with the "More Fragments" flag set.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9
Affected Packages1 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSAâ–¶
GHSA-2hh4-7m9c-h6f2: Heap-based buffer overflow in the eap_server_tls_process_fragment function in eap_server_tls_common↗2022-05-17
OSVâ–¶
CVE-2012-4445: Heap-based buffer overflow in the eap_server_tls_process_fragment function in eap_server_tls_common↗2012-10-10
CVEListâ–¶
CVE-2012-4445: Heap-based buffer overflow in the eap_server_tls_process_fragment function in eap_server_tls_common↗2012-10-10
📋Vendor Advisories
3BSD
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Red Hat
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Debianâ–¶
CVE-2012-4445: wpa - Heap-based buffer overflow in the eap_server_tls_process_fragment function in ea...↗2012
💬Community
3Bugzillaâ–¶
CVE-2012-4445 hostapd, wpa_supplicant: DoS (abort) by processing certain fragmented EAP-TLS messages [fedora-all]↗2012-10-09
Bugzillaâ–¶
CVE-2012-4445 hostapd: DoS (abort) by processing certain fragmented EAP-TLS messages [fedora-all]↗2012-10-08
Bugzillaâ–¶
CVE-2012-4445 hostapd, wpa_supplicant: DoS (abort) by processing certain fragmented EAP-TLS messages↗2012-09-24