CVE-2015-1863
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.8
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Red Hat Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13.2 | Affected | — |
| 13.1 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 15.04 | Affected | — |
| 14.10 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.3-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.3-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.3-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.3-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.3-2 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| w1.fi | wpa_supplicant | 1.0 | |
| w1.fi | wpa_supplicant | 1.1 | |
| w1.fi | wpa_supplicant | 2.0 | |
| w1.fi | wpa_supplicant | 2.1 | |
| w1.fi | wpa_supplicant | 2.2 | |
| w1.fi | wpa_supplicant | 2.3 | |
| w1.fi | wpa_supplicant | 2.4 | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1863.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00000.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131598/Android-wpa_supplicant-Heap-Overflow.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1090.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/82
- 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.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3233
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535353/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74296
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032192
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2577-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1863
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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