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Ubuntu 20.04: network-manager Update - Important Buffer Overflow Patch

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2015
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Essential security patch for wpa_supplicant resolves integer overflow vulnerabilities and guarantees safe unmounting of network filesystems.
wpa_supplicant-2.4-6.fc23 - 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-2.4-6.fc23 - 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 Fedora network management 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 23
Version: 2.4
Release: 6.fc23
URL: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary: WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora network management wpa_supplicant integer underflow

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