Out-of-Bounds Affecting hostapd package, versions [,2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.88% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HOSTAPD-2319509
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed15 Jun 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jun 2015

CVE-2015-4144  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hostapd to version 2.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The EAP-pwd server and peer implementation in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 does not validate that a message is long enough to contain the Total-Length field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message.

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