CVE-2015-8041

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the NDEF record parser in hostapd before 2.5 and wpa_supplicant before 2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash or infinite loop) via a large payload length field value in an (1) WPS or (2) P2P NFC NDEF record, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
w1.fi hostapd: through 2.4
Canonical Ltd. wpa_supplicant: through 2.4

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00037.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00041.html
http://w1.fi/security/2015-5/incomplete-wps-and-p2p-nfc-ndef-record-payload-length-validation.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/02/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75604
https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/hostapd/ChangeLog
https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/ChangeLog
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00037.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00041.html
http://w1.fi/security/2015-5/incomplete-wps-and-p2p-nfc-ndef-record-payload-length-validation.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397

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