CVE-2016-10743

Summary

CVECVE-2016-10743
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-03-23 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-04-10 19:29:00 UTC
Descriptionhostapd before 2.6 does not prevent use of the low-quality PRNG that is reached by an os_random() function call.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-332

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application W1.fi Hostapd All All All All
Application W1.fi Hostapd All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Hostapd fails at seeding PRNGS, leading to insufficient entropy (CVE-2016-10743 and CVE-2019-10064) MLIST www.openwall.com
Full Disclosure: Hostapd fails at seeding PRNGS, leading to insufficient entropy (CVE-2016-10743 and CVE-2019-10064) FULLDISC seclists.org
oss-security - Re: Hostapd fails at seeding PRNGS, leading to insufficient entropy (CVE-2016-10743 and CVE-2019-10064) MLIST www.openwall.com
Hostapd Insufficient Entropy ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
USN-3944-1: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 1733-1] wpa security update MLIST lists.debian.org
hostap - hostapd/wpa_supplicant MISC w1.fi Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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