CVE-2016-4477

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...

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...