SB2021030122 - Fedora 32 update for wpa_supplicant
Published: March 1, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021030122
CSH 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 vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27803)
CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
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.