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Debian DSA-1065-1 : hostapd - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22607

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Matteo Rosi and Leonardo Maccari discovered that hostapd, a wifi network authenticator daemon, performs insufficient boundary checks on a key length value, which might be exploited to crash the service.

Solution

Upgrade the hostapd package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain hostapd packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.7-2sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365897

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1065

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22607

File Name: debian_DSA-1065.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:hostapd, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/3/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2213

DSA: 1065