Fedora 30 Advisory: Critical wpa_supplicant Fix for Disconnection Issue

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.

Security fix for CVE-2019-16275

* Wed Oct 30 2019 Davide Caratti - 1:2.8-3

- fix AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass (CVE-2019-16275, rh #1767026)

* Fri May 10 2019 Davide Caratti - 1:2.8-2

- fix changelog for version 2.8-1

* Thu May 2 2019 Davide Caratti - 1:2.8-1

- Update to 2.8 upstream release, to include latest fix for NULL

pointer dereference when EAP-PWD peer receives unexpected EAP

fragments (CVE-2019-11555, rh #1701759)

[ 1 ] Bug #1767023 - CVE-2019-16275 wpa_supplicant: AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767023

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-2bdcccee3c' 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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