Advisories » MGASA-2021-0095

Updated wpa_supplicant packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Mar 2021
Modification date: 02 Mar 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-27803

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in how p2p/p2p_pd.c in wpa_supplicant before
2.10 processes P2P (Wi-Fi Direct) provision discovery requests. It could result
in denial of service or other impact (potentially execution of arbitrary code),
for an attacker within radio range (CVE-2021-27803).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28438
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/27/1
• https://w1.fi/security/2021-1/wpa_supplicant-p2p-provision-discovery-processing-vulnerability.txt
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27803

SRPMS

8/core

• wpa_supplicant-2.9-8.1.mga8

7/core

• wpa_supplicant-2.9-1.4.mga7