Arbitrary Library Loading Vulnerability in wpa_supplicant

CVE-2016-4477 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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