Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-3052-1 wpa

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3052-1 wpa -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Oct 2014

Affected Packages:

wpa

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 765352.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3686.

More information:

Jouni Malinen discovered an input sanitization issue in the wpa_cli and hostapd_cli tools included in the wpa package. A remote wifi system within range could provide a crafted string triggering arbitrary code execution running with privileges of the affected wpa_cli or hostapd_cli process.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0-3+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.