Alpine: multiple hostapd packages: security update to 2.5-r2 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401045

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- hostapd 0.6.7 through 2.5 and wpa_supplicant 0.6.7 through 2.5 do not reject \n and \r characters in
passphrase parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via a
crafted WPS operation. (CVE-2016-4476)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401045

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4476

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4476

BID: 90021

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