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Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wpasupplicant  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-WPASUPPLICANT-343067
  • published11 Apr 2019
  • disclosed17 Apr 2019
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Introduced: 11 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-9495  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wpasupplicant package and not the wpasupplicant package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The implementations of EAP-PWD in hostapd and wpa_supplicant are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. All versions of hostapd and wpa_supplicant with EAP-PWD support are vulnerable. The ability to install and execute applications is necessary for a successful attack. Memory access patterns are visible in a shared cache. Weak passwords may be cracked. Versions of hostapd/wpa_supplicant 2.7 and newer, are not vulnerable to the timing attack described in CVE-2019-9494. Both hostapd with EAP-pwd support and wpa_supplicant with EAP-pwd support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

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