GLSA 202309-16: wpa_supplicant, hostapd: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	wpa_supplicant, hostapd: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:	09/30/2023
Bugs:	#768759, #780135, #780138, #831332
ID:	202309-16

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in wpa_supplicant and hostapd, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Background

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.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-wireless/wpa_supplicant	< 2.10	>= 2.10	All supported architectures
net-wireless/hostapd	< 2.10	>= 2.10	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in hostapd and wpa_supplicant. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All wpa_supplicant users should upgrade to the latest version:

          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.10"

All hostapd users should upgrade to the latest version:


          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/hostapd-2.10"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202309-16.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.