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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021-0809-01 Critical wpa_supplicant Bug

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Calendar Grey March 11, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential upgrade released for wpa_supplicant in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to fix significant security vulnerabilities. Upgrade immediately!
An update for wpa_supplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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):
* wpa_supplicant: Use-after-free in P2P provision discovery processing (CVE-2021-27803)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security Red Hat update software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important wpa_supplicant important update use-after-free

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27803 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: wpa_supplicant-2.9-2.el8_3.1.src.rpm
aarch64: wpa_supplicant-2.9-2.el8_3.1.aarch64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-2.el8_3.1.aarch64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-2.el8_3.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: wpa_supplicant-2.9-2.el8_3.1.ppc64le.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-2.el8_3.1.ppc64le.rpm wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-2.el8_3.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: wpa_supplicant-2.9-2.el8_3.1.s390x.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-2.el8_3.1.s390x.rpm wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-2.el8_3.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: wpa_supplicant-2.9-2.el8_3.1.x86_64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-2.el8_3.1.x86_64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-2.el8_3.1.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-2021:0809-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0809
Issue date: 2021-03-11

Topic

An update for wpa_supplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory network security Red Hat update software update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important wpa_supplicant important update use-after-free

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1933361 - CVE-2021-27803 wpa_supplicant: Use-after-free in P2P provision discovery processing

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