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Alpine: hostapd: security update to 2.6-r6

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 404895

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - An invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to missing state
 validation steps when processing the SAE confirm message when in hostapd/AP mode. All version of hostapd
 with SAE support are vulnerable. An attacker may force the hostapd process to terminate, performing a
 denial of service attack. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and
 including version 2.7 are affected. (CVE-2019-9496)

 - hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 allow an incorrect indication of disconnection in
 certain situations because source address validation is mishandled. This is a denial of service that
 should have been prevented by PMF (aka management frame protection). The attacker must send a crafted
 802.11 frame from a location that is within the 802.11 communications range. (CVE-2019-16275)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-16275

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-9496

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404895

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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-2019-9496

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16275, CVE-2019-9496

BID: 108402