{"id":"MGASA-2020-0244","summary":"Updated wpa_supplicant packages fix security vulnerability","details":"Updated wpa_supplicant and hostpad packages fix security vulnerability:\n\nA vulnerability was discovered in wpa_supplicant. When Access Point (AP)\nmode and Protected Management Frames (PMF) (IEEE 802.11w) are enabled,\nwpa_supplicant does not perform enough validation on the source address\nof some received management frames. An attacker within the 802.11\ncommunications range could use this flaw to inject an unauthenticated\nframe and perform a denial-of-service attack against another device which\nwould be disconnected from the network (CVE-2019-16275).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T04:41:31.720502094Z","published":"2020-06-10T22:26:12Z","upstream":["CVE-2019-16275"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0244.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/ishow_bug.cgi?id=25430"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16275è"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://w1.fi/security/2019-7/ap-mode-pmf-disconnection-protection-bypass.txt"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/36G4XAZ644DMHBLKOL4FDSPZVIGNQY6U/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/FEGITWRTIWABW54ANEPCEF4ARZLXGSK5/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"wpa_supplicant","ecosystem":"Mageia:7","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/wpa_supplicant?arch=source&distro=mageia-7"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9-1.2.mga7"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0244.json"}},{"package":{"name":"hostapd","ecosystem":"Mageia:7","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/hostapd?arch=source&distro=mageia-7"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9-1.1.mga7"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0244.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}