CVE-2015-4144
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.034 · 89 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The EAP-pwd server and peer implementation in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 does not validate that a message is long enough to contain the Total-Length field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message.
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affected products (25)
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references (19)
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.htmlcnnvd
- http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txtPatchcnnvd
- http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/eap-pwd-missing-payload-length-validation.txtcnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/6cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6cnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/eap-pwd-missing-payload-length-validation.txtenisa_euvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397enisa_euvd
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