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LIN6-11197 : Security Advisory - Hostapd & wpa_supplicant - CVE-2016-4476

Created: May 17, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jul 13, 2016
Found In Version: 6.0.0.29
Fix Version: 6.0.0.31
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace

Description

hostapd 0.6.7 through 2.5 and wpa_supplicant 0.6.7 through 2.5 do not reject \n and \r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via a crafted WPS operation.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-4476

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