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Improper Authentication The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wpa  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-WPA-611477
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed17 Apr 2019
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Introduced: 17 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-9496  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

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

An invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to missing state validation steps when processing the SAE confirm message when in hostapd/AP mode. All version of hostapd with SAE support are vulnerable. An attacker may force the hostapd process to terminate, performing a denial of service attack. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

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