USN-4098-1

It was discovered that wpa_supplicant and hostapd were vulnerable to a side channel attack against EAP-pwd. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to recover certain passwords.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / wpa

Package

Name: wpa
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/wpa@2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4

Affected versions

2.*

2.4-0ubuntu10

2:2.*

2:2.4-1.1ubuntu1

2:2.6-15ubuntu1

2:2.6-15ubuntu2

2:2.6-15ubuntu2.1

2:2.6-15ubuntu2.2

2:2.6-15ubuntu2.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "hostapd",
            "binary_version": "2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "hostapd-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wpagui",
            "binary_version": "2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wpagui-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wpasupplicant",
            "binary_version": "2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wpasupplicant-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wpasupplicant-udeb",
            "binary_version": "2:2.6-15ubuntu2.4"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}