WPA_Supplicant Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has made an advisory available.

Gentoo Linux has released advisory GLSA 200502-22 dealing with this issue. Gentoo advises that all wpa_supplicant users should upgrade to the latest version:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.2.7"

For more information, please see the referenced Gentoo Linux advisory.

SuSE Linux has released a security summary report (SUSE-SR:2005:006) that contains fixes to address this and other vulnerabilities. Customers are advised to peruse the referenced advisory for further information regarding obtaining and applying appropriate updates.


wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant 0.2

wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant 0.2.1

wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant 0.2.2

wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant 0.2.3

wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant 0.2.4

wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant 0.2.5

wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant 0.2.6


 

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