PT-2007-4178 · Hostap · Wpa Supplicant

Published 2007-07-27 · Updated 2011-03-08 · CVE-2007-2874

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions wpa supplicant versions prior to 0.6.5-3.fc7

Description A buffer overflow issue exists in the wpa printf function within the debugging code of wpa supplicant. This allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed frames on a WPA2 network.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.6.5-3.fc7, update to version 0.6.5-3.fc7 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the debugging code in wpa supplicant to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2874

Affected Products

Wpa Supplicant

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2874 · Security Note
• http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-June/msg00032.html · Patch
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2053 · Note
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0186 · Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/46833 · Note