PT-2018-4399 · Linux+2 · Wpa Supplicant+2

Jouni Malinen · Published 2015-11-10 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-5316

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.x before 2.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a daemon crash, by sending an EAP-pwd Confirm message followed by the Identity exchange when EAP-pwd is enabled. This is due to a NULL pointer dereference in the eap pwd perform confirm exchange function.

Recommendations For wpa supplicant versions 2.x before 2.6, update to version 2.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2482

CVE-2015-5316

DSA-3397-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10499-1

USN-2808-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ubuntu

Wpa Supplicant

References · 53

• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5316 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-5316 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3397-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5316 · Security Note
• 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://w1.fi/security/2015-8/eap-pwd-unexpected-confirm.txt · Vendor Advisory