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Debian Stretch: DLA-2572-1 Moderate: wpa Buffer Overflow DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2021
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Security Notice DLA-2593-2 concerns a critical memory leak vulnerability in SSL impacting Debian LTS administrators.
An issue has been found in wpa, a set of tools to support WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
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Summary

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.


For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version
2:2.4-1+deb9u8.

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/source-package/wpa

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



Package: wpa
Version: 2:2.4-1+deb9u8
CVE ID: CVE-2021-0326

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