Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2138-1 wpa -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 Mar 2020

Affected Packages:

wpa

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-10064.

More information:

Similar to CVE-2016-10743 the host access point daemon, hostapd, in EAP mode used a low quality pseudorandom number generator that leads to insufficient entropy. The problem was resolved by using the os_get_random function which provides cryptographically strong pseudo random data.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 2.3-1+deb8u10.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS