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Ubuntu 18.10 Moderate: USN-3944-1 Fixes For WPA Supplicant And Hostapd

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical advisory for Ubuntu users concerning resolved vulnerabilities in wpa_supplicant and hostapd, addressing major remote exploitation risks.
Several security issues were fixed in wpa_supplicant and hostapd.

Summary

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security advisory moderate remote attack ubuntu wpa_supplicant hostapd

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10: hostapd 2:2.6-18ubuntu1.1 wpasupplicant 2:2.6-18ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: hostapd 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.2 wpasupplicant 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: hostapd 2.4-0ubuntu6.4 wpasupplicant 2.4-0ubuntu6.4 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: hostapd 2.1-0ubuntu1.7 wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu1.7 After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-10743, CVE-2019-9495, CVE-2019-9497, CVE-2019-9498,

CVE-2019-9499

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April 10, 2019

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security advisory moderate remote attack ubuntu wpa_supplicant hostapd

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2:2.6-18ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2:2.6-15ubuntu2.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.4-0ubuntu6.4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.1-0ubuntu1.7

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