Insufficient Entropy in PRNG Affecting hostapd package, versions [,2.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HOSTAPD-2319519
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed23 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2019

CVE-2016-10743  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-332  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hostapd to version 2.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Entropy in PRNG hostapd before 2.6 does not prevent use of the low-quality PRNG that is reached by an os_random() function call.

References

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