Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Hi,
> Matteo Rosi wrote:
> | Package: Hostapd
> | Version: 0.3.7-2
> | Severity: critical
> | Tags: security, patch, sarge
> Security team, please advise and/or upload. I believe the severity is
> inflated, as this is just a DoS on the program, but I'm leaving it to
> you to lower it.
we didn't have time to investigate it further but the problem seems to
be related to an unchecked buffer length, so even if now it only causes
a segfault, it might also cause worse consequences.
regards,
Matteo Rosi, Leonardo Maccari
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