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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-9496: wpa_supplicant security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-9496: wpa_supplicant security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/17/2019
Created
09/13/2019
Added
09/12/2019
Modified
09/12/2019

Description

An invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to missing state validation steps when processing the SAE confirm message when in hostapd/AP mode. All version of hostapd with SAE support are vulnerable. An attacker may force the hostapd process to terminate, performing a denial of service attack. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-wpa_supplicant

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