P2P most serious, but DoS possible with P2P disabled
P2P most serious, but DoS possible with P2P disabled
Posted Apr 24, 2015 10:56 UTC (Fri) by johill (subscriber, #25196)In reply to: P2P most serious, but DoS possible with P2P disabled by Duncan
Parent article: Wi-Fi software security bug could leave Android, Windows, Linux open to attack (Ars Technica)
It's not a kernel bug :)
It's really just one bug. And the problem cannot happen with just a "crafted SSID". For it to happen outside of an actual P2P usage scenario, you still have to have a scan result with a P2P device address or device ID attribute.