-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-13555 2014-10-27 02:20:51 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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This update fixes a possible security issue executing scripts with wpa_cli. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Oct 22 2014 Dan Williams dcbw@redhat.com - 1:2.0-12 - Use os_exec() for action script execution (CVE-2014-3686) * Thu Aug 21 2014 Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com - 1:2.0-11 - Rebuild for rpm bug 1131960 * Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering rel-eng@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@lists.fedoraproject.org - 1:2.0-9 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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/.
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