CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4477
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Description
wpa_supplicant 0.4.0 through 2.5 does not reject \n and \r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows local users to trigger arbitrary library loading and consequently gain privileges, or cause a denial of service (daemon outage), via a crafted (1) SET, (2) SET_CRED, or (3) SET_NETWORK command.
Affected configurations
• google android 4.4.4
• google android 5.0.2
• google android 5.1.1
• google android 6.0
• google android 6.0.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3455-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3455-1 www.ubuntu.com