From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wpa_supplicant: add upstream 2021-1 security fix
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:32:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft0x328h.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210302215943.14131-1-peter@korsgaard.com> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Tue, 2 Mar 2021 22:59:43 +0100")
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> writes:
> Fixes the following security issue:
> - wpa_supplicant P2P provision discovery processing vulnerability (no CVE
> yet)
> A vulnerability was discovered in how wpa_supplicant processes P2P
> (Wi-Fi Direct) provision discovery requests. Under a corner case
> condition, an invalid Provision Discovery Request frame could end up
> reaching a state where the oldest peer entry needs to be removed. With
> a suitably constructed invalid frame, this could result in use
> (read+write) of freed memory. This can result in an attacker within
> radio range of the device running P2P discovery being able to cause
> unexpected behavior, including termination of the wpa_supplicant process
> and potentially code execution.
> For more details, see the advisory:
> https://w1.fi/security/2021-1/wpa_supplicant-p2p-provision-discovery-processing-vulnerability.txt
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Committed to 2020.02.x and 2020.11.x, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-02 21:59 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wpa_supplicant: add upstream 2021-1 security fix Peter Korsgaard
2021-03-02 22:12 ` Yann E. MORIN
2021-03-14 20:32 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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