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Fedora 40 iwd 2.16 Critical Update for Access Point Issues

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The iwd 2.16 upgrade resolves multiple concerns, improving both security and performance for users on Fedora. Discover additional details.
iwd 2.16: Fix issue with uninitialized variable and DPP encrypt

Summary

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

hardware.

Update Information:

iwd 2.16: Fix issue with uninitialized variable and DPP encrypt. Fix issue with Access Point mode and ATTR_MAC validation. Fix issue with Access Point mode and frequency attributes. Fix issue with P2P and handling client info description. Fix issue with P2P and handling parsing of service info. Fix issue with netconfig and handling domain list. Add support for forcing a default ECC group.

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Change Log

* Thu Mar 7 2024 Peter Robinson - 2.16-1 - Update to 2.16

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2263573 - iwd-2.15 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263573 [ 2 ] Bug #2264597 - TRIAGE CVE-2023-52161 iwd: potential authorization bypass [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264597 [ 3 ] Bug #2267652 - iwd-2.16 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267652 [ 4 ] Bug #2267710 - CVE-2024-28084 iwd: denial of service [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267710

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-3fa713f2e0' 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 40
Version: 2.16
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/iwd.wiki.kernel.org/
Summary: Wireless daemon for Linux

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