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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-11691
2015-07-17 23:26:02
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Name        : wpa_supplicant
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.0
Release     : 14.fc21
URL         : http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary     : WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
Description :
wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support
for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA
component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation
with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11
authentication/association of the wlan driver.

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Update Information:

The update adds a patch for the security issue in bug 1241907.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul 15 2015 Jiří Klimeš  - 1:2.0-14
- Fix for NDEF record payload length checking (rh #1241907)
* Thu Apr 23 2015 Adam Williamson  - 1:2.0-13
- backport fix for CVE-2015-1863
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1241907 - hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241907
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update wpa_supplicant' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 21: wpa_supplicant Security Update

July 30, 2015
The update adds a patch for the security issue in bug 1241907.

Summary

wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support

for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA

component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation

with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11

authentication/association of the wlan driver.

Update Information:

The update adds a patch for the security issue in bug 1241907.

Change Log

* Wed Jul 15 2015 Jiří Klimeš - 1:2.0-14 - Fix for NDEF record payload length checking (rh #1241907) * Thu Apr 23 2015 Adam Williamson - 1:2.0-13 - backport fix for CVE-2015-1863

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1241907 - hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241907

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update wpa_supplicant' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : wpa_supplicant
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 2.0
Release : 14.fc21
URL : http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary : WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant

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