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Debian: DSA-4538-1 Critical: WPA Protocol Timing Attack and DoS

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2019
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Debian Security Announcement DSA-4539-1 relates to vulnerabilities found in TLS and suggests necessary patches.
Two vulnerabilities were found in the WPA protocol implementation found in wpa_supplication (station) and hostapd (access point)

Summary

CVE-2019-13377

A timing-based side-channel attack against WPA3's Dragonfly handshake when
using Brainpool curves could be used by an attacker to retrieve the
password.

CVE-2019-16275

Insufficient source address validation for some received Management frames
in hostapd could lead to a denial of service for stations associated to an
access point. An attacker in radio range of the access point could inject a
specially constructed unauthenticated IEEE 802.11 frame to the access point
to cause associated stations to be disconnected and require a reconnection
to the network.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version $stretch_VERSION.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.

For the detailed security status of wpa please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/sourc...

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Package: wpa
CVE ID: CVE-2019-13377 CVE-2019-16275

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