DSA-4538-1 wpa -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-13377   CVE-2019-16275  

Two vulnerabilities were found in the WPA protocol implementation found in wpa_supplication (station) and hostapd (access point). CVE-2019-13377 A timing-based side-channel attack against WPA3's Dragonfly handshake when using Brainpool curves could be used by an attacker to retrieve the password. CVE-2019-16275 Insufficient source address validation for some received Management frames in hostapd could lead to a denial of service for stations associated to an access point. An attacker in radio range of the access point could inject a specially constructed unauthenticated IEEE 802.11 frame to the access point to cause associated stations to be disconnected and require a reconnection to the network. For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u1. We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages. For the detailed security status of wpa please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/wpa

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4538-1 wpa -- security update

Date Reported:
29 Sep 2019
Affected Packages:
wpa
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 934180, Bug 940080.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-13377, CVE-2019-16275.
More information:

Two vulnerabilities were found in the WPA protocol implementation found in wpa_supplication (station) and hostapd (access point).

  • CVE-2019-13377

    A timing-based side-channel attack against WPA3's Dragonfly handshake when using Brainpool curves could be used by an attacker to retrieve the password.

  • CVE-2019-16275

    Insufficient source address validation for some received Management frames in hostapd could lead to a denial of service for stations associated to an access point. An attacker in radio range of the access point could inject a specially constructed unauthenticated IEEE 802.11 frame to the access point to cause associated stations to be disconnected and require a reconnection to the network.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.

For the detailed security status of wpa please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/wpa