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Author Topic:  [solved] wpasupplicant possibly bears security problem  (Read 1606 times)

Offline michaa7

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There is a warning (german only) about wpasupplicant being vulnerable ***if*** compiled with Build-Option CONFIG_P2P .

Does anyone have a clue how to find out whether or not this is the case with the current Debian version
Quote
apt-cache policy wpasupplicant
wpasupplicant:
  Installiert:           2.3-1

Until there is a new version, you (1) may patch and recompile your own package using Debian sources or you  (2) may disable  "p2p_disabled" in your  wpa_supplicant.conf  by setting it to "1". (Debian name may be slighly differnet).

As this is related to security I think it is ok to post it here in this section.
 
EDIT:

On my system I found only "/etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf" without any reference to "p2p_disabled".

So this warning may be unnecessary .
« Last Edit: 2015/04/26, 19:09:57 by musca »
Ok, you can't code, but you still might be able to write a bug report for Debian's sake

Offline musca

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Re: wpasupplicant: there might be a security problem
« Reply #1 on: 2015/04/24, 17:57:04 »
Hello micha,

a fixed wpasupplicant 2.3-2 package is pending in incoming:
* import "P2P: Validate SSID element length before copying it
  (CVE-2015-1863)" from upstream (Closes: #783148).


greetings
musca
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