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Fedora 40: 2024-0fa283c43a critical: iwd updates and security fixes

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Calendar Grey January 3, 2025
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Fedora System Alert regarding NetworkManager addressing problems with connectivity and compilation failures. Urgent patches included.
iwd 3.3: Fix issue with handling External Authentication

Summary

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

hardware.

Update Information:

iwd 3.3: Fix issue with handling External Authentication. iwd 3.2: Fix issue with GCC 15 and -std=c23 build errors. Add support for using PMKSA over SAE if available. Add support for HighUtilization/StationCount thresholds. Add support for disabling Multicast RX option. ell 0.71: Fix issue with GCC 15 and -std=c23 build errors. ell 0.70: Add support for helper function for safe memcpy.

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Change Log

* Mon Dec 23 2024 Peter Robinson - 3.3-1 - Update to 3.3 * Mon Nov 25 2024 Peter Robinson - 3.2-1 - Update to 3.2 * Sun Nov 10 2024 Peter Robinson - 3.1-1 - Update to 3.1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2294016 - CVE-2023-52424 iwd: 802.11: SSID Confusion attack [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294016 [ 2 ] Bug #2328735 - libell-0.71 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328735 [ 3 ] Bug #2328777 - iwd-3.3 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328777

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-0fa283c43a' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: iwd
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 3.3
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/iwd.wiki.kernel.org/
Summary: Wireless daemon for Linux

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