| Name | CVE-2015-8041 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3397-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 795740 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wpa (PTS) | jessie | 2.3-1+deb8u5 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 2.3-1+deb8u6 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 2:2.4-1+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 2:2.6-18 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hostapd | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | medium | ||
| hostapd | source | squeeze | (not affected) | |||
| wpa | source | (unstable) | 2.3-2.2 | medium | 795740 | |
| wpa | source | jessie | 2.3-1+deb8u3 | medium | DSA-3397-1 | |
| wpa | source | wheezy | 1.0-3+deb7u3 | medium | DSA-3397-1 | |
| wpasupplicant | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | medium | ||
| wpasupplicant | source | squeeze | (not affected) |
[squeeze] - wpasupplicant <not-affected> (0.7.0-v2.4 with with CONFIG_WPS_NFC=y)
[squeeze] - hostapd <not-affected> (v0.7.0-v2.4 with CONFIG_WPS_NFC=y)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/08/3
http://w1.fi/security/2015-5/