hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Denial of Service

hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Denial of Service A vulnerability in hostapd and wpa_supplicant could lead to a Denial of Service condition. wpa_supplicant 2019-08-18 2019-08-18 685860 688588 remote 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8

wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN).

hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers.

A vulnerability was discovered in hostapd’s and wpa_supplicant’s eap_server/eap_server_pwd.c and eap_peer/eap_pwd.c files.

An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All hostapd users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/hostapd-2.8"

All wpa_supplicant users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.8"

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