CVE-2015-4141

hostapd: WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding

Published Jun 15, 2015 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 3.0% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3397-1 wpa security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-4165 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2650-1 wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities
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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 6:04 AM
Reserved
May 31, 2015, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 15, 2015, 3:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:26 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
May 4, 2015, 12:00 AM