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Debian: DSA-2005-123 Critical: apache2 Remote Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey February 16, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
Gentoo GLSA-200502-23 brings attention to a critical vulnerability in wpa_supplicant which may lead to a Denial of Service situation.
wpa_supplicant contains a buffer overflow that could lead to a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: wpa_supplicant: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: February 16, 2005 Bugs: #81993 ID: 200502-22

Synopsis ======= wpa_supplicant contains a buffer overflow that could lead to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-wireless/wpa_supplicant < 0.2.7 >= 0.2.7
========== wpa_supplicant contains a possible buffer overflow due to the lacking validation of received EAPOL-Key frames.
Impact ===== An attacker could cause the crash o...

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