Slackware: 2015-132-03 Moderate: wpa_supplicant Denial Of Service Fix
slackware
May 12, 2015
New wpa_supplicant packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes potential denial of service issues. For more information, see: http://w1.fi/security/2015-1/wpa_supplicant-p2p-ssid-overflow.txt http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txt http://w1.fi/security/2015-3/integer-underflow-in-ap-mode-wmm-action-frame.txt http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/eap-pwd-missing-payload-length-validation.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1863 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.0 package:
7f0be52bb776a4271e2c75c4a36ff6b2 wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
51465ca8c06051e104c640e00c52c828 wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
6f6241c6acb4f425d1f3d8c049897563 wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
890d7affeaa810b132b751e8d786104e wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
ee59505664ba2dffc0de89613ff0aaa7 n/wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
faddaa8944aee1696ac50d634c68b369 n/wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-2.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
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