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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-4477: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2016-05-09
Added
2017-08-30
Modified
2025-01-28

Description

wpa_supplicant 0.4.0 through 2.5 does not reject \n and \r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows local users to trigger arbitrary library loading and consequently gain privileges, or cause a denial of service (daemon outage), via a crafted (1) SET, (2) SET_CRED, or (3) SET_NETWORK command.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wpa_supplicant

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