CVE-2015-4141 — 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 BufferCWE-190 — Integer Overflow or WraparoundCWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer OverflowCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents8 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.5%
top 19.08%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
OpensuseW1.fi HostapdW1.fi WPA Supplicant
Timeline
PublishedJun 15
Latest updateMay 14

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 vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDw1.fi/hostapd11 versions+10
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse13.1, 13.2+1
▶NVDw1.fi/wpa_supplicant11 versions+10

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-fr6x-5vfp-hc79: The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0↗2022-05-14
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OSV
wpa, wpasupplicant vulnerabilities↗2015-06-16
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CVEList
CVE-2015-4141: The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0↗2015-06-15
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OSV
CVE-2015-4141: The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0↗2015-06-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities↗2015-06-16
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Red Hat
hostapd: WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding↗2015-05-04
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Debian
CVE-2015-4141: wpa - The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when us...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-4141 wpa_supplicant and hostapd: WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding↗2015-05-13
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CVE-2015-4141 — W1.fi Hostapd vulnerability | cvebase