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A wpa_supplicant security update is available for Fedora 31



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-0e0b28001d
2019-11-07 01:17:00.131701
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Name : wpa_supplicant
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 2.9
Release : 2.fc31
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 negotiationwith a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2019-16275
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 30 2019 Davide Caratti - 1:2.9-2 - fix AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass (CVE-2019-16275, rh #1767026)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1767023 - CVE-2019-16275 wpa_supplicant: AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767023 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-0e0b28001d' 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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