CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6956
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.3 HIGH — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
On the Broadcom Wi-Fi HardMAC SoC with fbt firmware, a stack buffer overflow occurs when handling an 802.11r (FT) authentication response, leading to remote code execution via a crafted access point that sends a long R0KH-ID field in a Fast BSS Transition Information Element (FT-IE).
Affected configurations
• broadcom hardmac wi-fi soc firmware 6.37.34.40
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1059 Third Party Advisory
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1059 Third Party Advisory
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html Third Party Advisory