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CVE-2015-8041 json

Multiple integer overflows in the NDEF record parser in hostapd before 2.5 and wpa_supplicant before 2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a…

published 2015-11-09 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-7934

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in the NDEF record parser in hostapd before 2.5 and wpa_supplicant before 2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash or infinite loop) via a large payload length field value in an (1) WPS or (2) P2P NFC NDEF record, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Patch / fix

  • wpa Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3-2.2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8041

  • wpa Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.4-0ubuntu5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8041

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP4-LTSS +8 more 2.9-15.22.1
  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 2.9-23.3.1
  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 +3 more 2.9-4.20.1
  • wpa_supplicant SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 2.2-14.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1853-1SUSE-SU-2020:3424-1SUSE-SU-2020:3380-1SUSE-SU-2016:2305-1

  • wpa_supplicant openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.9-13.4
  • wpa_supplicant openSUSE Leap 15.2 2.9-lp152.8.3.1
  • wpa_supplicant openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.9-lp151.5.10.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11515-1openSUSE-SU-2020:2059-1openSUSE-SU-2020:2053-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-8041 updated cvss 2.6

wpa_supplicant: Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wpa_supplicant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wpa_supplicant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wpa_supplicant
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.