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Fedora 21: 2015-cfea96144a Critical: wpa_supplicant Integer Underflow

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2015
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Fedora 21 releases a security patch for WPA Supplicant that resolves an integer overflow issue and improves the procedures for terminating network connections.
wpa_supplicant-2.0-17.fc21 - Make sure that network filesystems are unmounted when shutting down (rh #1214466) - CVE-2015-4142: AP WMM: Fix integer underflow in WMM Action frame pa...

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:

wpa_supplicant-2.0-17.fc21 - Make sure that network filesystems are unmounted when shutting down (rh #1214466) - CVE-2015-4142: AP WMM: Fix integer underflow in WMM Action frame parser (rh #1221178)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Fedora wpa_supplicant integer underflow

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1221178 - CVE-2015-4142 wpa_supplicant and hostapd: integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221178

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 .

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Name: wpa_supplicant
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 2.0
Release: 17.fc21
URL: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary: WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant

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security advisory critical issue Fedora wpa_supplicant integer underflow

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