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Ubuntu wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability
Ubuntu released a notification of USN-4757-1 today which describes a security vulnerability that was found in wp_supplicant where in some certain situations it did not handle P2P provision discovery requests. This allowed an attacker to be able to cause a denial of service attack. Also, in some situations, the attacker was possibly execute arbitrary code.
More details about this can be found at this link:
Chris March 3rd, 2021
Posted In: Around the Web
Tags: hostapd, USN47571, vulnerability, wpa_supplicant