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Fedora 22 WPA Supplicant Security Advisory: Critical Update for Bug 1241907

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An essential patch for wpa_supplicant in Fedora 22 tackles vulnerability #1241907, promoting more secure network connections.
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.

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Change Log

* Wed Jul 15 2015 Jiří Klimeš - 1:2.4-4 - Fix for NDEF record payload length checking (rh #1241907) * Tue Jun 16 2015 Jiří Klimeš - 1:2.4-3 - Fix a crash if P2P management interface is used (rh #1231973)

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 .

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Name: wpa_supplicant
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.4
Release: 4.fc22
URL: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary: WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant

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