CVE-2005-0470 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in wpa_supplicant versions prior to 0.2.7, impacting various Linux distributions including Gentoo and SUSE. This flaw allows remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial of service (segmentation fault) by sending malformed EAPOL-Key packet data. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only leading to availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpa_supplicant:wpa_supplicant:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpa_supplicant:wpa_supplicant:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpa_supplicant:wpa_supplicant:0.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpa_supplicant:wpa_supplicant:0.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpa_supplicant:wpa_supplicant:0.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.