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USN-4734-1: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities

11 February 2021

Several security issues were fixed in wpa_supplicant and hostapd.

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Releases

Packages

  • wpa - client support for WPA and WPA2

Details

It was discovered that wpa_supplicant did not properly handle P2P
(Wi-Fi Direct) group information in some situations, leading to a
heap overflow. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-0326)

It was discovered that hostapd did not properly handle UPnP subscribe
messages in some circumstances. An attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2020-12695)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-4734-2: hostapd, wpasupplicant, wpasupplicant-udeb, wpa, wpagui
  • USN-4494-1: libgupnp-doc, gupnp, libgupnp-1.2-dev, libgupnp-1.2-0, gir1.2-gupnp-1.2
  • USN-4722-1: minidlna