Debian: DSA-3233-1 Critical: wpa_supplicant Remote Code Execution
debian
April 24, 2015
The Google security team and the smart hardware research group of Alibaba security team discovered a flaw in how wpa_supplicant used SSID information when creating or updating P2P ...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0-3+deb7u2. Note that this issue does not affect the binary
packages distributed in Debian as the CONFIG_P2P is not enabled for
the build.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been
fixed in version 2.3-1+deb8u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: wpa
CVE ID: CVE-2015-1863
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