Vigil@nce - wpasupplicant: NULL pointer dereference via eap_server_pwd.c, eap_pwd.c
July 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, pfSense, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on server, denial of service on
service, denial of service on client.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 07/05/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
eap_server_pwd.c, eap_pwd.c of wpasupplicant, in order to trigger
a denial of service.
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