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Alpine: wpa_supplicant: security update to 2.6-r10

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 407697

Description

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

 - The EAP-pwd implementation in hostapd (EAP server) before 2.8 and wpa_supplicant (EAP peer) before 2.8
 does not validate fragmentation reassembly state properly for a case where an unexpected fragment could be
 received. This could result in process termination due to a NULL pointer dereference (denial of service).
 This affects eap_server/eap_server_pwd.c and eap_peer/eap_pwd.c. (CVE-2019-11555)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-11555

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 407697

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11555

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 4/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11555