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SUSE: 2019:1088-1 Moderate: wpa_supplicant Access Point Issue

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Calendar Grey April 29, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Bulletin: Patch for wpa_supplicant addressing a critical key integrity vulnerability. Detailed steps included.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update for wpa_supplicant fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-14526: Under certain conditions, the integrity of EAPOL-Key messages was not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker within range of the Access Point and client could have abused the vulnerability to recover sensitive information (bsc#1104205). This non-security issue was fixed: - Enabled PWD as EAP method. This allows for password-based authentication, which is easier to setup than most of the other methods, and is used by the Eduroam network (bsc#1109209). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:

References

#1104205 #1109209

Cross- CVE-2018-14526

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14526.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104205

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109209

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:1088-1
Rating: moderate

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