CVE-2015-4144

NameCVE-2015-4144
DescriptionThe EAP-pwd server and peer implementation in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 does not validate that a message is long enough to contain the Total-Length field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-3397-1
Debian Bugs787371

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wpa (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.3-1+deb8u15fixed
stretch (security)2:2.4-1+deb9u9fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2:2.4-1+deb9u11fixed
buster, buster (lts)2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u5fixed
buster (security)2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u4fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2:2.9.0-21+deb11u2fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm2:2.10-12+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie2:2.10-22fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
hostapdsource(unstable)(not affected)
wpasourcewheezy1.0-3+deb7u3DSA-3397-1
wpasourcejessie2.3-1+deb8u3DSA-3397-1
wpasource(unstable)2.3-2.2787371
wpasupplicantsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

[wheezy] - wpa <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
support for fragmentation added in https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=5ea93947ca67ba83529798b806a15b247cdb2e93
- wpasupplicant <not-affected> (v1.0-v2.4 with CONFIG_EAP_PWD=y)
- hostapd <not-affected> (v1.0-v2.4 with CONFIG_EAP_PWD=y)
http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/
http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/eap-pwd-missing-payload-length-validation.txt
http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/0003-EAP-pwd-peer-Fix-Total-Length-parsing-for-fragment-r.patch
http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/0004-EAP-pwd-server-Fix-Total-Length-parsing-for-fragment.patch
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/07/5

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