Re: cve-2017-13077 - WPA2 security vulni

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > I got the patches a couple days ago. I've been busy with personal life
> > stuff so I haven't updated our in-tree hostapd/wpa_supplicant. If
> > someone beats me to it, great, otherwise I'll try to do it in the next
> > couple days.
> >
> > I was hoping (!) for a hostap/wpa_supplicant 2.7 update to just update
> > everything to but so far nope. It should be easy enough to update the
> > port for now as it's at 2.6.
> >
> >
> >
> > -adrian
> >
> >
> > On 16 October 2017 at 06:04, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_komquats.com> wrote:
> > > In message <44161b4d-f834-a01d-6ddb-475f208762f9_at_FreeBSD.org>, Lev
> > Serebryakov
> > > writes:
> > >> On 16.10.2017 13:38, blubee blubeeme wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > well, that's a cluster if I ever seen one.
> > >>  It is really cluster: CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13079,
> > >> CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081, CVE-2017-13082, CVE-2017-13084,
> > >> CVE-2017-13086,CVE-2017-13087, CVE-2017-13088.
> > >
> > > The gory details are here: https://w1.fi/security/2017-1/
> > wpa-packet-number-reuse-with-replayed-messages.txt
> > >
> > > The announcement is here:
> > > https://www.krackattacks.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > > Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com>
> > > FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy_at_FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org
> > >
> > >         The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
> > >
> >
> 
> While I do not encourage waiting, it is quite likely that the upstream
> patch wil show up very soon now that the vulnerability is public.
> 
> It's also worth noting that fixing either end of the connection is all that
> is required, as I understand it. So getting an update for your AP is not
> required. That is very fortunate as the industry has a rather poor record
> of getting out firmware updates for hardware more than a few months old.
> Also, it appears that Windows and iOS are not vulnerable due to flaws in
> their implementation of the WPA2 spec. (Of course, if you update your
> AP(s), you no longer need to worry about your end devices.
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>From my reading of the attack it is the client side that must
be fixed, you can not mitigate the client side bug by an update
to the AP.

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