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A wpa update has been released for Debian



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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3397-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
November 10, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : wpa
CVE ID : 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
Debian Bug : 787371 787372 787373 795740 804707 804708 804710

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/