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Red Hat 7 RHSA-2017:2907-01 Important: wpa_supplicant Wi-Fi Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2017
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Canonical releases a critical security patch for NetworkManager in Ubuntu 20.04, mitigating severe wireless vulnerability threats.
An update for wpa_supplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The wpa_supplicant packages contain an 802.1X Supplicant with support for WEP, WPA, WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN), and various EAP authentication methods. They implement key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator for client stations and controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication and association of the WLAN driver.
Security Fix(es):
* A new exploitation technique called key reinstallation attacks (KRACK) affecting WPA2 has been discovered. A remote attacker within Wi-Fi range could exploit these attacks to decrypt Wi-Fi traffic or possibly inject forged Wi-Fi packets by manipulating cryptographic handshakes used by the WPA2 protocol. (CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13082, CVE-2017-13086, CVE-2017-13087, CVE-2017-13088)
Red Hat would like to thank CERT for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Mathy Vanhoef (University of Leuven) as the original reporter of these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security security update Red Hat important wpa_supplicant Wi-Fi exploit

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13077 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13078 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13080 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13082 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13086 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13087 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13088 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/kracks

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.src.rpm
x86_64: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-5.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.src.rpm
x86_64: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-5.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.src.rpm
aarch64: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.aarch64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-5.el7_4.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.ppc64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-5.el7_4.1.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.ppc64le.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-5.el7_4.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.s390x.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-5.el7_4.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-5.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.src.rpm
x86_64: wpa_supplicant-2.6-5.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-5.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:2907-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2907
Issue date: 2017-10-17

Topic

An update for wpa_supplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security security update Red Hat important wpa_supplicant Wi-Fi exploit

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1491692 - CVE-2017-13077 wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the pairwise key in the 4-way handshake

1491693 - CVE-2017-13078 wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the group key in the 4-way handshake

1491696 - CVE-2017-13080 wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the group key in the group key handshake

1491698 - CVE-2017-13082 wpa_supplicant: Accepting a retransmitted FT Reassociation Request and reinstalling the pairwise key while processing it

1500302 - CVE-2017-13086 wpa_supplicant: reinstallation of the Tunneled Direct-Link Setup (TDLS) PeerKey (TPK) key in the TDLS handshake

1500303 - CVE-2017-13087 wpa_supplicant: reinstallation of the group key (GTK) when processing a Wireless Network Management (WNM) Sleep Mode Response frame

1500304 - CVE-2017-13088 wpa_supplicant: reinstallation of the integrity group key (IGTK) when processing a Wireless Network Management (WNM) Sleep Mode Response frame

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