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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-05-09T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:32:25.406Z

Reserved: 2016-05-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-4476

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2016-05-09T10:59:41.813

Modified: 2020-08-12T13:13:42.137

Link: CVE-2016-4476

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-05-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-4476 - Bugzilla