Debian DLA-1150-1 : wpa security update (KRACK)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104299

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability was found in how WPA code can be triggered to reconfigure WPA/WPA2/RSN keys (TK, GTK, or IGTK) by replaying a specific frame that is used to manage the keys. Such reinstallation of the encryption key can result in two different types of vulnerabilities: disabling replay protection and significantly reducing the security of encryption to the point of allowing frames to be decrypted or some parts of the keys to be determined by an attacker depending on which cipher is used.

Those issues are commonly known under the 'KRACK' appelation.
According to US-CERT, 'the impact of exploiting these vulnerabilities includes decryption, packet replay, TCP connection hijacking, HTTP content injection, and others.'

CVE-2017-13077

Reinstallation of the pairwise encryption key (PTK-TK) in the 4-way handshake.

CVE-2017-13078

Reinstallation of the group key (GTK) in the 4-way handshake.

CVE-2017-13079

Reinstallation of the integrity group key (IGTK) in the 4-way handshake.

CVE-2017-13080

Reinstallation of the group key (GTK) in the group key handshake.

CVE-2017-13081

Reinstallation of the integrity group key (IGTK) in the group key handshake.

CVE-2017-13082

Accepting a retransmitted Fast BSS Transition (FT) Reassociation Request and reinstalling the pairwise encryption key (PTK-TK) while processing it.

CVE-2017-13084

Reinstallation of the STK key in the PeerKey handshake.

CVE-2017-13086

reinstallation of the Tunneled Direct-Link Setup (TDLS) PeerKey (TPK) key in the TDLS handshake.

CVE-2017-13087

reinstallation of the group key (GTK) when processing a Wireless Network Management (WNM) Sleep Mode Response frame.

CVE-2017-13088

reinstallation of the integrity group key (IGTK) when processing a Wireless Network Management (WNM) Sleep Mode Response frame.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.0-3+deb7u5. Note that the latter two vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-13087 and CVE-2017-13088) were mistakenly marked as fixed in the changelog whereas they simply did not apply to the 1.0 version of the WPA source code, which doesn't implement WNM sleep mode responses.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104299

File Name: debian_DLA-1150.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/1/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:hostapd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wpagui, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wpasupplicant, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wpasupplicant-udeb, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13079, CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081, CVE-2017-13082, CVE-2017-13086, CVE-2017-13087, CVE-2017-13088

IAVA: 2017-A-0310

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