Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3397-1 wpa -- security update

Date Reported:
10 Nov 2015
Affected Packages:
wpa
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 787371, Bug 787372, Bug 787373, Bug 795740, Bug 804707, Bug 804708, Bug 804710.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-4141, CVE-2015-4142, CVE-2015-4143, CVE-2015-4144, CVE-2015-4145, CVE-2015-4146, CVE-2015-5310, CVE-2015-5314, CVE-2015-5315, CVE-2015-5316, CVE-2015-8041.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in wpa_supplicant and hostapd. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2015-4141

    Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team discovered a vulnerability in the WPS UPnP function with HTTP chunked transfer encoding which may result in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2015-4142

    Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team discovered a vulnerability in the WMM Action frame processing which may result in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2015-4143 CVE-2015-4144 CVE-2015-4145 CVE-2015-4146

    Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team discovered that EAP-pwd payload is not properly validated which may result in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2015-5310

    Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the WMM Sleep Mode Response frame processing. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to mount a denial of service.

  • CVE-2015-5314 CVE-2015-5315

    Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the handling of EAP-pwd messages which may result in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2015-5316

    Jouni Malinen discovered a flaw in the handling of EAP-pwd Confirm messages which may result in a denial of service.

  • CVE-2015-8041

    Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation may result in a denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0-3+deb7u3. The oldstable distribution (wheezy) is only affected by CVE-2015-4141, CVE-2015-4142, CVE-2015-4143 and CVE-2015-8041.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.3-1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.