USN-4757-2

It was discovered that wpa_supplicant did not properly handle P2P (Wi-Fi Direct) provision discovery requests in some situations. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / wpa

Package

Name: wpa
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/wpa@2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm4?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm4

Affected versions

1.*

1.0-3ubuntu2

1.0-3ubuntu3

1.0-3ubuntu4

2.*

2.1-0ubuntu1

2.1-0ubuntu1.1

2.1-0ubuntu1.2

2.1-0ubuntu1.3

2.1-0ubuntu1.4

2.1-0ubuntu1.5

2.1-0ubuntu1.6

2.1-0ubuntu1.7

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "wpagui",
            "binary_version": "2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wpasupplicant-udeb",
            "binary_version": "2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wpasupplicant",
            "binary_version": "2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm4"
        }
    ]
}