CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10743
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-332
Description
hostapd before 2.6 does not prevent use of the low-quality PRNG that is reached by an os_random() function call.
Affected configurations
• w1.fi hostapd (< 2.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-332 Insufficient Entropy in PRNG weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156573/Hostapd-Insufficient-Entropy.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/26 seclists.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/27/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/27/2 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00035.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3944-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=98a516eae8260e6fd5c48ddecf8d006285da7389 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156573/Hostapd-Insufficient-Entropy.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/26 seclists.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/27/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/27/2 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00035.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3944-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=98a516eae8260e6fd5c48ddecf8d006285da7389 Patch, Third Party Advisory