Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-5316 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
high complexity
w1-fi
debian
CWE-476
nessus

Summary

The eap_pwd_perform_confirm_exchange function in eap_peer/eap_pwd.c in wpa_supplicant 2.x before 2.6, when EAP-pwd is enabled in a network configuration profile, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an EAP-pwd Confirm message followed by the Identity exchange.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3397.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities have been discovered in wpa_supplicant and hostapd. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2015-4141 Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team discovered a vulnerability in the WPS UPnP function with HTTP chunked transfer encoding which may result in a denial of service. - CVE-2015-4142 Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team discovered a vulnerability in the WMM Action frame processing which may result in a denial of service. - CVE-2015-4143 CVE-2015-4144 CVE-2015-4145 CVE-2015-4146 Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team discovered that EAP-pwd payload is not properly validated which may result in a denial of service. - CVE-2015-5310 Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the WMM Sleep Mode Response frame processing. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to mount a denial of service. - CVE-2015-5314 CVE-2015-5315 Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the handling of EAP-pwd messages which may result in a denial of service. - CVE-2015-5316 Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the handling of EAP-pwd Confirm messages which may result in a denial of service. - CVE-2015-8041 Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation may result in a denial of service.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id86833
    published2015-11-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86833
    titleDebian DSA-3397-1 : wpa - security update
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3397. The text 
    # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(86833);
      script_version("2.7");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:37");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2015-4141", "CVE-2015-4142", "CVE-2015-4143", "CVE-2015-4144", "CVE-2015-4145", "CVE-2015-4146", "CVE-2015-5310", "CVE-2015-5314", "CVE-2015-5315", "CVE-2015-5316", "CVE-2015-8041");
      script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3397");
    
      script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3397-1 : wpa - security update");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in wpa_supplicant and
    hostapd. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
    the following problems :
    
      - CVE-2015-4141
        Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team
        discovered a vulnerability in the WPS UPnP function with
        HTTP chunked transfer encoding which may result in a
        denial of service.
    
      - CVE-2015-4142
        Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team
        discovered a vulnerability in the WMM Action frame
        processing which may result in a denial of service.
    
      - CVE-2015-4143 CVE-2015-4144 CVE-2015-4145 CVE-2015-4146
        Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team
        discovered that EAP-pwd payload is not properly
        validated which may result in a denial of service.
    
      - CVE-2015-5310
        Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the WMM Sleep Mode
        Response frame processing. A remote attacker can take
        advantage of this flaw to mount a denial of service.
    
      - CVE-2015-5314 CVE-2015-5315
        Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the handling of
        EAP-pwd messages which may result in a denial of
        service.
    
      - CVE-2015-5316
        Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the handling of
        EAP-pwd Confirm messages which may result in a denial of
        service.
    
      - CVE-2015-8041
        Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length
        validation may result in a denial of service."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787371"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787372"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787373"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795740"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804707"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804708"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804710"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4141"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4142"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4143"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4144"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4145"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4146"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5310"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5314"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5315"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5316"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8041"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4141"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4142"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4143"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8041"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/wpa"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/wpa"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3397"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:
    "Upgrade the wpa packages.
    
    For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been
    fixed in version 1.0-3+deb7u3. The oldstable distribution (wheezy) is
    only affected by CVE-2015-4141, CVE-2015-4142, CVE-2015-4143 and
    CVE-2015-8041.
    
    For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
    in version 2.3-1+deb8u3."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wpa");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/11/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/11/11");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("debian_package.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"hostapd", reference:"1.0-3+deb7u3")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"wpagui", reference:"1.0-3+deb7u3")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"wpasupplicant", reference:"1.0-3+deb7u3")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"wpasupplicant-udeb", reference:"1.0-3+deb7u3")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"hostapd", reference:"2.3-1+deb8u3")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"wpagui", reference:"2.3-1+deb8u3")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"wpasupplicant", reference:"2.3-1+deb8u3")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"wpasupplicant-udeb", reference:"2.3-1+deb8u3")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-2808-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that wpa_supplicant incorrectly handled WMM Sleep Mode Response frame processing. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform broadcast/multicast packet injections, or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5310) It was discovered that wpa_supplicant and hostapd incorrectly handled certain EAP-pwd messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5314, CVE-2015-5315) It was discovered that wpa_supplicant incorrectly handled certain EAP-pwd Confirm messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-5316). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id86848
    published2015-11-11
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86848
    titleUbuntu 14.04 LTS / 15.04 / 15.10 : wpa vulnerabilities (USN-2808-1)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2808-1. The text 
    # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
    # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
    # trademark of Canonical, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(86848);
      script_version("2.12");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/18 12:31:45");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2015-5310", "CVE-2015-5314", "CVE-2015-5315", "CVE-2015-5316");
      script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2808-1");
    
      script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 15.04 / 15.10 : wpa vulnerabilities (USN-2808-1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:
    "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
    patches."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "It was discovered that wpa_supplicant incorrectly handled WMM Sleep
    Mode Response frame processing. A remote attacker could use this issue
    to perform broadcast/multicast packet injections, or cause a denial of
    service. (CVE-2015-5310)
    
    It was discovered that wpa_supplicant and hostapd incorrectly handled
    certain EAP-pwd messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to
    cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5314, CVE-2015-5315)
    
    It was discovered that wpa_supplicant incorrectly handled certain
    EAP-pwd Confirm messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to
    cause a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10.
    (CVE-2015-5316).
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
    has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
    without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/2808-1/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected hostapd and / or wpasupplicant packages."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:hostapd");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:wpasupplicant");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/01/06");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/11/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/11/11");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("ubuntu.inc");
    include("misc_func.inc");
    
    if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
    if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
    release = chomp(release);
    if (! preg(pattern:"^(14\.04|15\.04|15\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 14.04 / 15.04 / 15.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
    if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"hostapd", pkgver:"2.1-0ubuntu1.4")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"wpasupplicant", pkgver:"2.1-0ubuntu1.4")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"15.04", pkgname:"hostapd", pkgver:"2.1-0ubuntu7.3")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"15.04", pkgname:"wpasupplicant", pkgver:"2.1-0ubuntu7.3")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"15.10", pkgname:"hostapd", pkgver:"2.4-0ubuntu3.2")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"15.10", pkgname:"wpasupplicant", pkgver:"2.4-0ubuntu3.2")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
        extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "hostapd / wpasupplicant");
    }
    
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_976567F605C511E694FA002590263BF5.NASL
    descriptionJouni Malinen reports : wpa_supplicant unauthorized WNM Sleep Mode GTK control. (2015-6 - CVE-2015-5310) EAP-pwd missing last fragment length validation. (2015-7 - CVE-2015-5315) EAP-pwd peer error path failure on unexpected Confirm message. (2015-8 - CVE-2015-5316)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id90568
    published2016-04-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90568
    titleFreeBSD : hostapd and wpa_supplicant -- multiple vulnerabilities (976567f6-05c5-11e6-94fa-002590263bf5)