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Ubuntu 15.10 USN-2808-1 Critical: wpa_supplicant Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2809-1 highlights vulnerabilities in OpenSSH and OpenSSL impacting multiple versions.
Several security issues were fixed in wpa_supplicant and hostapd.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu wpa_supplicant hostapd

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 15.10: hostapd 2.4-0ubuntu3.2 wpasupplicant 2.4-0ubuntu3.2 Ubuntu 15.04: hostapd 2.1-0ubuntu7.3 wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu7.3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: hostapd 2.1-0ubuntu1.4 wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu1.4 After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2808-1

CVE-2015-5310, CVE-2015-5314, CVE-2015-5315, CVE-2015-5316

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November 10, 2015

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security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu wpa_supplicant hostapd

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.4-0ubuntu3.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.1-0ubuntu7.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.1-0ubuntu1.4

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