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Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1624
Advisory Release Date: 2021-03-25 18:31 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-03-25 20:51 Pacific
Severity:
Important
References:
CVE-2021-27803
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the wpa_supplicant, in the way it processes P2P (Wi-Fi Direct) provision discovery requests. This flaw allows an attacker who is within radio range of the device running P2P discovery to cause termination of the wpa_supplicant process or potentially cause code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-27803)
Affected Packages:
wpa_supplicant
Issue Correction:
Run yum update wpa_supplicant to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.amzn2.2.1.aarch64
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.amzn2.2.1.aarch64
i686:
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.amzn2.2.1.i686
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.amzn2.2.1.i686
src:
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.amzn2.2.1.src
x86_64:
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.amzn2.2.1.x86_64
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.amzn2.2.1.x86_64