CVE-2015-1863

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way wpa_supplicant handled SSID information in the Wi-Fi Direct / P2P management frames. A specially crafted frame could allow an attacker within Wi-Fi radio range to cause wpa_supplicant to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

This issue did not affect the wpa_supplicant versions as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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