Vulnerability record · CVE-2015-4141 · published 15 June 2015
CVE-2015-4141: W1.fi wpa supplicant memory buffer overflow vulnerability
WW1.Fi · Wpa Supplicant
The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0.7.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative chunk length, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow.
Description
The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0.7.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative chunk length, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products
3 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.html | Third Party Advisory |
| http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txt | Vendor Advisory |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397 | |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/4 | Mailing List |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6 | Mailing List |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2650-1 | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17 | Third Party Advisory |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.html | Third Party Advisory |
| http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txt | Vendor Advisory |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397 | |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/4 | Mailing List |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6 | Mailing List |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2650-1 | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17 | Third Party Advisory |
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Related vulnerabilities
Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2015-4141), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-15). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.