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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2019-97e9040197 High Timing Attack Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey August 18, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The new hostapd 2.9 version has been released to address timing vulnerabilities in WPA3's Dragonfly handshake, particularly CVE-2019-13377, enhancing wireless security
Update to version 2.9 from upstream Security fix for CVE-2019-13377

Summary

hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It

implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP

Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server.

hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the back-ground and

acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports

separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is

included with hostapd.

Update to version 2.9 from upstream Security fix for CVE-2019-13377

* Fri Aug 9 2019 John W. Linville - 2.9-1

- Update to version 2.9 from upstream

* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Jul 3 2019 Lubomir Rintel - 2.8-2

- Enable SAE

* Wed May 15 2019 John W. Linville - 2.8-1

- Update to version 2.8 from upstream

- Drop obsoleted patches

* Fri Apr 12 2019 John W. Linville - 2.7-2

- Bump N-V-R for rebuild

* Fri Apr 12 2019 John W. Linville - 2.7-1

- Update to version 2.7 from upstream

- Remove obsolete patches for NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE encoding and KRACK

- Fix CVE-2019-9494 (cache attack against SAE)

- Fix CVE-2019-9495 (cache attack against EAP-pwd)

- Fix CVE-2019-9496 (SAE confirm missing state validation in hostapd/AP)

- Fix CVE-2019-9497 (EAP-pwd server not checking for reflection attack)

- Fix CVE-2019-9498 (EAP-pwd server missing commit validation for scalar/element)

- Fix CVE-2019-9499 (EAP-pwd peer missing commit validation for scalar/element)

[ 1 ] Bug #1737665 - CVE-2019-13377 wpa_supplicant: Timing-based side-channel attack against WPA3's Dragonfly handshake when using Brainpool curves

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737665

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-97e9040197' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 30
Version: 2.9
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator

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