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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2020:4567-1 High: network-manager Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The most recent openSUSE Security Patch for wpa_supplicant resolves a decryption oracle vulnerability along with five other important corrections.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 5 fixes is now available.

Description

This update for wpa_supplicant provides the following fixes:

This security issues was fixe:

- CVE-2018-14526: Under certain conditions, the integrity of EAPOL-Key

messages was not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker

within range of the Access Point and client could have abused the

vulnerability to recover sensitive information (bsc#1104205)

These non-security issues were fixed:

- Fix reading private key passwords from the configuration file.

(bsc#1099835)

- Enable PWD as EAP method. This allows for password-based authentication,

which is easier to setup than most of the other methods, and is used by

the Eduroam network. (bsc#1109209)

- compile eapol_test binary to allow testing via radius proxy and server

(note: this does not match CONFIG_EAPOL_TEST which sets -Werror and

activates an assert call inside the code of wpa_supplicant)

(bsc#1111873), (fate#326725)

- Enabled timestamps in log file...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1316=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

wpa_supplicant-2.6-lp150.3.6.1

wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-lp150.3.6.1

wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.6-lp150.3.6.1

wpa_supplicant-gui-2.6-lp150.3.6.1

wpa_supplicant-gui-debuginfo-2.6-lp150.3.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14526.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1080798

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1098854

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099835

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104205

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109209

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111873

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3539-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

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