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Slackware 14.2: SSA:2022-019-01 Urgent: wpa_supplicant Side-Channel Threat

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to wpa_supplicant packages in Slackware address critical vulnerabilities tied to side-channel attacks, strengthening the overall security framework
New wpa_supplicant packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-i586-2_slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update contains patches for these security issues: The implementations of EAP-pwd in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9495. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23303 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23304 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical slackware wpa_supplicant side-channel attack

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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-i586-2_slack14.2.txz
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Slackware 14.0 package: 2280cd5ac650efbea19b99d1dd4c59a8 wpa_supplicant-2.9-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 80a689b41fc5d0d2fd64dd7373d17530 wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 60745a47367d06a15bf358bb95de258a wpa_supplicant-2.9-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 34c12ac12179e237fcb6bca437748ef8 wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: cb302d2051b664a4b62c16064f71cef2 wpa_supplicant-2.9-i586-2_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 9d043357433ce14c3f12fa8c0684f6d5 wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 5e683e2388ed350249245c16f319a0d4 n/wpa_supplicant-2.10-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: e47c6496be9200b2917d6fde4e503c75 n/wpa_supplicant-2.10-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg wpa_supplicant-2.9-i586-2_slack14.2.txz

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