CVE-2015-4141
hostapd: WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · May 4, 2015
Updated · June 27, 2026
Description
The WPS UPnP function in hostapd, when using WPS AP, and wpa_supplicant, when using WPS external registrar (ER), 0.7.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative chunk length, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow.
Statement
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wpa_supplicant as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 5, 6, and 7.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 2.9AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound