PT-2015-6849 · Wpa Supplicant+2 · Wpa Supplicant+2

Jouni Malinen · Published 2015-11-10 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-5315

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions wpa supplicant versions 2.0 through 2.5

Description The issue concerns the eap pwd process function in eap peer/eap pwd.c, which does not validate the size of the reassembly buffer for the final fragment when EAP-pwd is enabled. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a large final fragment in an EAP-pwd message.

Recommendations For wpa supplicant versions 2.0 through 2.5, update to version 2.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2482

CVE-2015-5315

DSA-3397-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10499-1

USN-2808-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ubuntu

Wpa Supplicant

References · 55

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5310 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5314 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-12092 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5316 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4146 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5310 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5315 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3397-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4143 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wpa · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-2482 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5316 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2808-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-12120 · Security Note