CVE-2015-4144

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

5.0

Description

The EAP-pwd server and peer implementation in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 does not validate that a message is long enough to contain the Total-Length field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message.

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 Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.2	Affected	—
13.1	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed 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

Vendor	Product	Versions
w1.fi	hostapd	`1.0`
w1.fi	hostapd	`1.1`
w1.fi	hostapd	`2.0`
w1.fi	hostapd	`2.1`
w1.fi	hostapd	`2.2`
w1.fi	hostapd	`2.3`
w1.fi	hostapd	`2.4`
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

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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