[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.8-2.fc30
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-ff1b728d09
2019-05-14 00:58:11.471703
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Name : wpa_supplicant
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 2.8
Release : 2.fc30
URL : http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary : WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
Description :
wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support
for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA
component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation
with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11
authentication/association of the wlan driver.
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Update Information:
upgrade to latest 2.8 version, that includes fix for CVE-2019-11555.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri May 10 2019 Davide Caratti <dcaratti(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.8-2
- fix changelog for version 2.8-1
* Thu May 2 2019 Davide Caratti <dcaratti(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.8-1
- Update to 2.8 upstream release, to include latest fix for NULL
pointer dereference when EAP-PWD peer receives unexpected EAP
fragments (CVE-2019-11555, rh #1701759)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1703418 - CVE-2019-11555 wpa_supplicant: Improper fragmentation reassembly
state validation in EAP peer leading to DoS [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1703418
[ 2 ] Bug #1701759 - wpa_supplicant-2.8 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701759
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-ff1b728d09' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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