Use of Insufficiently Random Values Affecting firmware-nonfree package, versions <20180825-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN13-FIRMWARENONFREE-5680210
  • published 17 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 17 Oct 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 firmware-nonfree to version 20180825-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firmware-nonfree package and not the firmware-nonfree package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) allows reinstallation of the Pairwise Transient Key (PTK) Temporal Key (TK) during the four-way handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to replay, decrypt, or spoof frames.

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