CVE-2015-8041

medium

Published 2015-11-09 · 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

Multiple integer overflows in the NDEF record parser in hostapd before 2.5 and wpa_supplicant before 2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash or infinite loop) via a large payload length field value in an (1) WPS or (2) P2P NFC NDEF record, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

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	Fixed
w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	`{"endIncluding":"2.4"}`
w1.fi	hostapd	`{"endIncluding":"2.4"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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

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