Denial of Service Vulnerability in hostapd and wpa_supplicant via Crafted WPS Operation

Denial of Service Vulnerability in hostapd and wpa_supplicant via Crafted WPS Operation

CVE-2016-4476 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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