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LIN8-3537 : Security Advisory - Hostapd & wpa_supplicant - CVE-2016-4476

Created: May 17, 2016 Updated: Dec 3, 2018

Resolved Date: Jul 13, 2016

Found In Version: 8.0

Fix Version: 8.0.0.11

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8

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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CVE-2016-4476