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Fedora: 28-38faa9a2a8 Critical: iwd Connection Issues Fix

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2024
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Critical update for Fedora 38 with iwd version 2.15, addressing timeout issues and preventing deauthentication errors.
iwd 2.15: Fix issue with notice events for connection timeouts

Summary

The daemon and utilities for controlling and configuring the Wi-Fi network

hardware.

Update Information:

iwd 2.15: Fix issue with notice events for connection timeouts. Fix issue with reason code and deauthenticate event. Fix issue with handling basename() functionality. libell 0.63: Fix issue with handling ending boundary of the PEM.

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Change Log

* Wed Feb 28 2024 Peter Robinson - 2.15-1 - Update to 2.15 * Sat Feb 10 2024 Peter Robinson - 2.14-1 - Update to 2.14 * Wed Jan 24 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.13-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jan 20 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.13-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jan 14 2024 Peter Robinson - 2.13-1 - Update to 2.13

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2264597 - TRIAGE CVE-2023-52161 iwd: potential authorization bypass [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264597

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-38faa9a2a8' 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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Name: iwd
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.15
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/iwd.wiki.kernel.org/
Summary: Wireless daemon for Linux

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