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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-23304: Observable Discrepancy

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 17, 2022
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

The implementations of EAP-pwd in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9495.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-hostapdalpine-linux-upgrade-wpa_supplicant
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