Security researchers discovered a bug in WiFi SSID management that could be exploited by hackers to crash Android, Windows, Linux systems or hack them. The attack occurs via a malicious wireless peer-to-peer network name. The vulnerability is related to wrong validation of data, in particular, the check for the length of transmitted data. An attacker can use a P2P SSID names that exceed the valid 32 octets of data to memory allocated and writes information beyond this memory space. The good new is the availability of a patch for the vulnerability, Google will include it for Android system in one of the next security updates.”]
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