Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Apr 26, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-11555
CVE-2019-11555
Description
The EAP-pwd implementation in hostapd (EAP server) before 2.8 and wpa_supplicant (EAP peer) before 2.8 does not validate fragmentation reassembly state properly for a case where an unexpected fragment could be received. This could result in process termination due to a NULL pointer dereference (denial of service). This affects eap_server/eap_server_pwd.c and eap_peer/eap_pwd.c.
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Affected products
27- osv-coords22 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/wpa_supplicant&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/wpa_supplicant&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/opensuse/wpa_supplicant&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wpa_supplicant&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5
< 2.9-lp152.8.3.1+ 21 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-lp152.8.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-lp151.5.10.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-4.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-4.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-4.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-4.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-4.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-13.4
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-4.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-15.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-23.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9-23.3.1
cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:wpa_supplicant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:wpa_supplicant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.8
- (no CPE)range: <2.8
- Range: <2.8
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
15- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/26/1nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- w1.fi/security/2019-5/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/6nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- w1.fi/security/2019-5/eap-pwd-message-reassembly-issue-with-unexpected-fragment.txtnvdVendor Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00030.htmlnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5T7G763UECWR7FQXOJVL67PW7C5A3SA4/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DJKZHAT5KPUN26JL77EUH563GAH5XZ5C/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IQ6P2GI5GSXRNLNIUNPARFZQVDEIGVZD/nvd
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/40nvd
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/64nvd
- security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:03.wpa.ascnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-25nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/3969-1/nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/3969-2/nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4450nvd
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