CVE-2015-4141 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Wi-Fi access points or clients by sending malicious WPS UPnP packets with negative chunk lengths, causing memory corruption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-4141?
CVE-2015-4141 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 15 Jun 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0.7.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative chunk length, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4141?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Opensuse Opensuse, W1.fi Hostapd, W1.fi Wpa Supplicant.
How do I fix CVE-2015-4141?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2015-4141 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4141 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-4141, GHSA-fr6x-5vfp-hc79, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4141.