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Red Hat 8: RHSA-2021-1686-01 Moderate: wpa_supplicant P2P Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
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An update is now offered for wpa_supplicant on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 that carries a moderate security risk. Discover more information here.
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: P2P group information processing vulnerability (CVE-2021-0326)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate network security Red Hat bug fix moderate impact wpa_supplicant 802.1X WLAN authentication

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-0326 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.aarch64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-5.el8.aarch64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.s390x.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-5.el8.s390x.rpm wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-5.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.x86_64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-5.el8.x86_64.rpm wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-5.el8.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/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1686-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1686
Issue date: 2021-05-18

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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate network security Red Hat bug fix moderate impact wpa_supplicant 802.1X WLAN authentication

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1693684 - incorrect handling of p2p_listen (always use p2p_long_listen)

1888050 - Wlan's in a bridge won't do authentication properly when operating in AP mode

1888718 - RFE: export support for OWE via d-bus

1916394 - [RFE] Add WPA-EAP-SUITE-B-192 (WPA3-Enterprise)

1925152 - CVE-2021-0326 wpa_supplicant: P2P group information processing vulnerability

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