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Fedora alert FEDORA-2015-11691 (wpa_supplicant)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.0-14.fc21
Date:  Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:48:21 +0000
Message-ID:  <20150730004823.C4B47615A039@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-11691 2015-07-17 23:26:02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : wpa_supplicant Product : Fedora 21 Version : 2.0 Release : 14.fc21 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: The update adds a patch for the security issue in bug 1241907. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jul 15 2015 Jiří Klimeš <jklimes@redhat.com> - 1:2.0-14 - Fix for NDEF record payload length checking (rh #1241907) * Thu Apr 23 2015 Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> - 1:2.0-13 - backport fix for CVE-2015-1863 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1241907 - hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241907 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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Fedora security update to wpa_supplicant

Posted Jul 31, 2015 4:00 UTC (Fri) by toyotabedzrock (guest, #88005) [Link] (1 responses)

Why is NFC part of wpa supplicant?

Fedora security update to wpa_supplicant

Posted Jul 31, 2015 21:07 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

There is a protocol for learning a WPA2 key via NFC included in WiFi Protected Setup

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nfc+wpa2


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