PT-2017-17423
CVE-2017-6956
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Published
2017-04-05
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Updated
2017-04-11
Description by
CVSS 3.1
8.8
HighMetricsAV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Broadcom Wi-Fi HardMAC SoC with fbt firmware (affected versions not specified)
Description
A stack buffer overflow issue occurs when handling an 802.11r (FT) authentication response. This happens due to a crafted access point sending a long R0KH-ID field in a Fast BSS Transition Information Element (FT-IE), potentially leading to remote code execution.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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