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Fedora 22 wpa_supplicant Update: 2015-1521e91178 Critical Integer Underflow

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The Fedora 22 update for wpa_supplicant tackles issues related to integer underflow and guarantees that network filesystems are properly unmounted. Discover additional details!
wpa_supplicant-2.4-7.fc22 - Make sure that network filesystems are unmounted when shutting down (rh #1214466) - CVE-2015-4142: AP WMM: Fix integer underflow in WMM Action frame par...

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-2.4-7.fc22 - 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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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 22
Version: 2.4
Release: 7.fc22
URL: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary: WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant

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