CVE-2015-1863 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1863?

CVE-2015-1863 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 28 Apr 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1863?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node, Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1863?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-1863 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1863 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1863, DSA-3233-1, GHSA-5mh9-2ph2-m7gj, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1863, USN-2577-1.