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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201908-25">
  <title>hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in hostapd and wpa_supplicant could lead to a
    Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wpa_supplicant</product>
  <announced>2019-08-18</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-08-18</revised>
  <bug>685860</bug>
  <bug>688588</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-wireless/hostapd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="net-wireless/wpa_supplicant" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE
      802.11i / RSN).
    </p>
    
    <p>hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication
      servers.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability was discovered in hostapd’s and wpa_supplicant’s
      eap_server/eap_server_pwd.c and eap_peer/eap_pwd.c files.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All hostapd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-wireless/hostapd-2.8"
    </code>
    
    <p>All wpa_supplicant users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.8"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11555">CVE-2019-11555</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-08-11T00:58:42Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-08-18T02:31:07Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>