Vulnerability fixed in wpa_supplicant

A vulnerability has been fixed in wpasupplicant when it is configured for P2P Wi-Fi Direct support. A malicious person within Wi-Fi range could potentially exploit it to cause a denial-of-service or execute arbitrary execute arbitrary code with root privileges. w1.fi has released updates to fix t...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Linux kernel, W1.fi

Mitchell Frank and Mark Leonard of Cisco discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the open-source program W1.fi. Both of these vulnerabilities target hostapd. One could allow an attacker to forge authentication...