Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wpasupplicant (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published28 Apr 2015
- disclosed28 Apr 2015
Introduced: 28 Apr 2015
CVE-2015-1863 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wpasupplicant package and not the wpasupplicant package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Heap-based buffer overflow in wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), read memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted SSID information in a management frame when creating or updating P2P entries.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-1863
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535353/100/0/threaded
- http://w1.fi/security/2015-1/wpa_supplicant-p2p-ssid-overflow.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3233
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1863
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131598/Android-wpa_supplicant-Heap-Overflow.html
- http://security.alibaba.com/blog/blog.htm?spm=0.0.0.0.p1ECc3&id=19
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00000.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1090.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/82
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74296
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032192
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2577-1