Denial of Service Vulnerability in WPS UPnP Function in hostapd and wpa_supplicant

Denial of Service Vulnerability in WPS UPnP Function in hostapd and wpa_supplicant

CVE-2015-4141 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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