========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2650-1 June 16, 2015 wpa, wpasupplicant vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: wpa_supplicant and hostapd could be made to crash if they received specially crafted network traffic. Software Description: - wpa: client support for WPA and WPA2 - wpasupplicant: client support for WPA and WPA2 Details: Kostya Kortchinsky discovered multiple flaws in wpa_supplicant and hostapd. A remote attacker could use these issues to cause wpa_supplicant or hostapd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-4141, CVE-2015-4142, CVE-2015-4143, CVE-2015-4144, CVE-2015-4145, CVE-2015-4146) Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 15.04: hostapd 2.1-0ubuntu7.2 wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu7.2 Ubuntu 14.10: hostapd 2.1-0ubuntu4.2 wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu4.2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: hostapd 2.1-0ubuntu1.3 wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: wpasupplicant 0.7.3-6ubuntu2.4 After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2650-1 CVE-2015-4141, CVE-2015-4142, CVE-2015-4143, CVE-2015-4144, CVE-2015-4145, CVE-2015-4146 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.1-0ubuntu7.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.1-0ubuntu4.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.1-0ubuntu1.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/0.7.3-6ubuntu2.4