[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.0-12.fc20
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-13555
2014-10-27 02:20:51
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Name : wpa_supplicant
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 2.0
Release : 12.fc20
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:
This update fixes a possible security issue executing scripts with wpa_cli.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Oct 22 2014 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.0-12
- Use os_exec() for action script execution (CVE-2014-3686)
* Thu Aug 21 2014 Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> - 1:2.0-11
- Rebuild for rpm bug 1131960
* Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> -
1:2.0-10
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Jun 8 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> -
1:2.0-9
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1151259 - CVE-2014-3686 wpa_supplicant and hostapd: wpa_cli and hostapd_cli
remote command execution issue
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151259
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update wpa_supplicant' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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