VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-4141

medium
Published 2015-06-15 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

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.

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
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.3-2.2
sid Fixed 2.3-2.2
forky Fixed 2.3-2.2
bullseye Fixed 2.3-2.2
bookworm Fixed 2.3-2.2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.7.0
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.7.1
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.7.2
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.7.3
w1.fiwpa_supplicant1.0
w1.fiwpa_supplicant1.1
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.0
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.1
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.2
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.3
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.4
w1.fihostapd0.7.0
w1.fihostapd0.7.1
w1.fihostapd0.7.2
w1.fihostapd0.7.3
w1.fihostapd1.0
w1.fihostapd1.1
w1.fihostapd2.0
w1.fihostapd2.1
w1.fihostapd2.2
w1.fihostapd2.3
w1.fihostapd2.4

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.