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Posted on 24 April 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3233-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
April 24, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : wpa
CVE ID : CVE-2015-1863
Debian Bug : 783148
The Google security team and the smart hardware research group of
Alibaba security team discovered a flaw in how wpa_supplicant used SSID
information when creating or updating P2P peer entries. A remote
attacker can use this flaw to cause wpa_supplicant to crash, expose
memory contents, and potentially execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0-3+deb7u2. Note that this issue does not affect the binary
packages distributed in Debian as the CONFIG_P2P is not enabled for
the build.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been
fixed in version 2.3-1+deb8u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3-2.
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/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
