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ubuntu-cve-2015-8041

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-11-09 16:59

Modified

2025-09-08 16:43

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8041	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/08/3	REPORT
	http://w1.fi/security/2015-5/	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8041	REPORT

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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8041",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:43:29Z",
  "published": "2015-11-09T16:59:00Z",
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}

CVE-2015-8041 (GCVE-0-2015-8041)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-09 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:06

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/hostapd/ChangeLog	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-1…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/Ch…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75604	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-1…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/02/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://w1.fi/security/2015-5/incomplete-wps-and-p…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2015-07-08 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2015-8041 (GCVE-0-2015-8041)

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