CVE-2016-4477

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 9, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: May 3, 2016

Description

wpa_supplicant 0.4.0 through 2.5 does not reject \n and \r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows local users to trigger arbitrary library loading and consequently gain privileges, or cause a denial of service (daemon outage), via a crafted (1) SET, (2) SET_CRED, or (3) SET_NETWORK command.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
[oss-security] 20160503 Re: hostapd/wpa_supplicant - psk configuration parameter update allowing arbitrary data to be writtenmailing-list
USN-3455-1vendor-advisory

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