CVE-2016-4477

CVE-2016-4477 affects wpa_supplicant (and hostapd) when updating WPA/WPA2 passphrases: input containing newline/control characters can cause the updated configuration to execute code or disrupt service. In practice, this enables local privilege escalation via the control interface (SET_NETWORK) a...

CVE-2016-4477: Undefined Security Weakness

wpasupplicant 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 SETCRED, or 3 SETNETWORK command...