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hostapd and wpa_supplicant -- psk configuration parameter update allowing arbitrary data to be written

Affected packages
wpa_supplicant < 2.5_2
hostapd < 2.6

Details

VuXML ID 967b852b-1e28-11e6-8dd3-002590263bf5
Discovery 2016-05-02
Entry 2016-05-20
Modified 2017-03-22

Jouni Malinen reports:

psk configuration parameter update allowing arbitrary data to be written (2016-1 - CVE-2016-4476/CVE-2016-4477).

References

CVE Name CVE-2016-4476
CVE Name CVE-2016-4477
FreeBSD PR ports/209564
URL http://w1.fi/security/2016-1/psk-parameter-config-update.txt