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CVE-2015-1863

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-04-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), read memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted SSID information in a management frame when creating or updating P2P entries.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• Canonical Ltd. wpa_supplicant: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 (+1)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00000.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131598/Android-wpa_supplicant-Heap-Overflow.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1090.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/82
• http://security.alibaba.com/blog/blog.htm?spm=0.0.0.0.p1ECc3&id=19
• http://w1.fi/security/2015-1/wpa_supplicant-p2p-ssid-overflow.txt
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3233
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535353/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74296
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032192
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2577-1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-17

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