gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201606-17.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201606-17">
  <title>hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in hostapd and
    wpa_supplicant, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or
    cause Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wpa_supplicant</product>
  <announced>2016-06-27</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-06-27</revised>
  <bug>524928</bug>
  <bug>547492</bug>
  <bug>548742</bug>
  <bug>548744</bug>
  <bug>554860</bug>
  <bug>554862</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-wireless/hostapd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="net-wireless/wpa_supplicant" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.5-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.5-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE
      802.11i / RSN). hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and
      authentication servers.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities exist in both hostapd and wpa_supplicant. 
      Please review the CVE identifiers for more information.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
      process or cause Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All hostapd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-wireless/hostapd-2.5"
    </code>
    
    <p>All wpa_supplicant users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.5-r1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3686">CVE-2014-3686</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3686">CVE-2014-3686</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1863">CVE-2015-1863</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-4141">CVE-2015-4141</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-4142">CVE-2015-4142</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-4143">CVE-2015-4143</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-4144">CVE-2015-4144</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-4145">CVE-2015-4145</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-4146">CVE-2015-4146</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-04-30T18:59:29Z">K_F</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-06-27T10:31:51Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>