CVE-2015-1863
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.8 · Memory corruption
5.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorAdjacent
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131598/Android-wpa_supplicant-Heap-Overflow.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1090.htmlAdvisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/82Advisory
- http://security.alibaba.com/blog/blog.htm?spm=0.0.0.0.p1ECc3&id=19
- http://w1.fi/security/2015-1/wpa_supplicant-p2p-ssid-overflow.txtAdvisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3233Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535353/100/0/threaded