CVE-2016-4476

Published: May 9, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

hostapd 0.6.7 through 2.5 and wpa_supplicant 0.6.7 through 2.5 do not reject \n and \r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via a crafted WPS operation.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20160503 Re: hostapd/wpa_supplicant - psk configuration parameter update allowing arbitrary data to be written

mailing-list

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USN-3455-1

vendor-advisory

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CVE-2016-4476

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