PT-2015-7907 · Linux · Hostapd

Published 2015-05-12 · Updated 2015-05-12

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions hostapd (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability was found in hostapd that can be used to perform denial of service attacks by an attacker within radio range of the AP that uses hostapd for MLME/SME operations.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2015-0216

Affected Products

Hostapd

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0216 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0216.html · Security Note
• http://w1.fi/security/2015-3/integer-underflow-in-ap-mode-wmm-action-frame.txt · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15876 · Note