Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1065-1 hostapd -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:
19 May 2006
Affected Packages:
hostapd
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 365897.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2213.
More information:

Matteo Rosi and Leonardo Maccari discovered that hostapd, a wifi network authenticator daemon, performs insufficient boundary checks on a key length value, which might be exploited to crash the service.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain hostapd packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.7-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hostapd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hostapd/hostapd_0.3.7-2sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.