CVE-2016-10743

Publication date 23 March 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

hostapd before 2.6 does not prevent use of the low-quality PRNG that is reached by an os_random() function call.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
wpa 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.4-0ubuntu6.4
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.1-0ubuntu1.7

Notes

mdeslaur

low-quality PRNG is only used as a fallback if /dev/urandom can't be opened

Patch details

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Package Patch details
wpa

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3944-1
    • wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities
    • 10 April 2019

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