SB2021022708 - Denial of service in wpa_supplicant
Published: February 27, 2021 Updated: January 17, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021022708
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Physical access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27803)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources when processing P2P (Wi-Fi Direct) provision discovery requests in p2p/p2p_pd in wpa_supplicant. A remote attacker within radio range can send specially crafted request to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://w1.fi/security/2021-1/wpa_supplicant-p2p-provision-discovery-processing-vulnerability.txt
- https://w1.fi/security/2021-1/0001-P2P-Fix-a-corner-case-in-peer-addition-based-on-PD-R.patch
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/25/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/27/1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KOGP2VIVVXXQ6CZ2HU4DKGPDB4WR24XF/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00003.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZGUR5XFHATVXTRAEJMODS7ROYHA56NX/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SEHS2CFGH3KCSNPHBHNGN5SGV6QPMLZ4/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4898