Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1065-1 hostapd -- missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 19 May 2006
- Affected Packages:
- hostapd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 365897.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2213. - More information:
-
Matteo Rosi and Leonardo Maccari discovered that hostapd, a wifi network authenticator daemon, performs insufficient boundary checks on a key length value, which might be exploited to crash the service.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain hostapd packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.7-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hostapd package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.