CVE-2015-1863: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in wpa_supplicant 1.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), read memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted SSID information in a management frame when creating or updating P2P entries.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only; version 15.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• w1.fi Wpa Supplicant: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; …

Published 2015-04-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.