CVE-2016-4476

NameCVE-2016-4476
Descriptionhostapd 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-473-1
Debian Bugs823411

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wpa (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2:2.9.0-21+deb11u2fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2:2.10-12+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie2:2.10-22fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wpasourcewheezy1.0-3+deb7u4DLA-473-1
wpasourcejessie2.3-1+deb8u4
wpasource(unstable)2.3-2.4823411

Notes

http://w1.fi/security/2016-1/
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