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Mageia: 2021-0254 Critical: wpa_supplicant Hostapd Forging Attack Fix

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Calendar Grey June 13, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2021-0255 introduces essential modifications for wpa_supplicant and hostapd addressing vulnerabilities in computational processing mechanisms.
The wpa_supplicant and hostapd packages are updated to fix a forging attacks that may occur because AlgorithmIdentifier parameters are mishandled in tls/pkcs1.c and tls/x509v3.c

Summary

The wpa_supplicant and hostapd packages are updated to fix a forging attacks that may occur because AlgorithmIdentifier parameters are mishandled in tls/pkcs1.c and tls/x509v3.c. (CVE-2021-30004).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29046

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-30004

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Topics Covered

security advisory wpa_supplicant hostapd Mageia forging attack algorithm issue

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/wpa_supplicant-2.9-8.2.mga8

- 8/core/hostapd-2.9-5.1.mga8

- 7/core/wpa_supplicant-2.9-1.5.mga7

- 7/core/hostapd-2.9-1.3.mga7

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Publication date: 13 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0254.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-30004

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Topics Covered

security advisory wpa_supplicant hostapd Mageia forging attack algorithm issue

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