CVE-2012-4445

medium
Published 2012-10-10 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the eap_server_tls_process_fragment function in eap_server_tls_common.c in the EAP authentication server in hostapd 0.6 through 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or abort) via a small "TLS Message Length" value in an EAP-TLS message with the "More Fragments" flag set.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.0-3
debian debianbullseyefixed1.0-3
debian debianforkyfixed1.0-3
debian debiansidfixed1.0-3
debian debiantrixiefixed1.0-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
w1.fihostapd0.6.0
w1.fihostapd0.6.1
w1.fihostapd0.6.2
w1.fihostapd0.6.3
w1.fihostapd0.6.4
w1.fihostapd0.6.5
w1.fihostapd0.6.6
w1.fihostapd0.6.7
w1.fihostapd0.7.0
w1.fihostapd0.7.1
w1.fihostapd0.7.2
w1.fihostapd0.7.3
w1.fihostapd1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.