Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2557-1 hostapd

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2557-1 hostapd -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

08 Oct 2012

Affected Packages:

hostapd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-4445.

More information:

Timo Warns discovered that the internal authentication server of hostapd, a user space IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing fragmented EAP-TLS messages. As a result, an internal overflow checking routine terminates the process. An attacker can abuse this flaw to conduct denial of service attacks via crafted EAP-TLS messages prior to any authentication.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:0.6.10-2+squeeze1.

For the testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your hostapd packages.