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FreeBSD: VID-7E53F9CC-656D-11E9-8E67-206A8A720317 (CVE-2019-9494): FreeBSD -- SAE side-channel attacks

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FreeBSD: VID-7E53F9CC-656D-11E9-8E67-206A8A720317 (CVE-2019-9494): FreeBSD -- SAE side-channel attacks

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/10/2019
Created
04/25/2019
Added
04/23/2019
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

The implementations of SAE in hostapd and wpa_supplicant are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences and cache access patterns. An attacker may be able to gain leaked information from a side channel attack that can be used for full password recovery. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-base-11_2-release-p9
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-12_0-release-p3
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-hostapd
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-wpa_supplicant

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