CVE-2017-13079 Other in Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2)

What is CVE-2017-13079?

CVE-2017-13079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) that supports IEEE 802.11w allows reinstallation of the Integrity Group Temporal Key (IGTK) during the four-way handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to spoof frames from access points to clients.

Weakness: CWE-330, CWE-323

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-13079?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Freebsd Freebsd, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2017-13079?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2017-13079 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-13079 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-13079, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13079, GHSA-gh8r-7rf7-w4rg, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13079.