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Debian LTS: Security Advisory for wpa (DLA-2572-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.9

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

3 years ago

Modified

Modified

3 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'wpa' package(s) announced via the DLA-2572-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

An issue has been found in wpa, a set of tools to support WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i). Missing validation of data can result in a buffer over-write, which might lead to a DoS of the wpa_supplicant process or potentially arbitrary code execution. On request, together with this upload support for WPA-EAP-SUITE-B(-192) has been enabled.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'wpa' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2:2.4-1+deb9u8. We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.

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