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A wpa_supplicant security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.10-2.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-41f5b208b2
2022-01-29 06:37:20.624389
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Name : wpa_supplicant
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 2.10
Release : 2.fc35
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:

update to version 2.10 and enable OCV CVE-2022-23303
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 26 2022 Michael Yartys - 1:2.10-2
- Enable Operating Channel Validation (OCV) support
* Mon Jan 17 2022 Davide Caratti - 1:2.10-1
- Update to version 2.10 (keeping CONFIG_WEP enabled). Related: rhbz#2041269
* Tue Sep 14 2021 Sahana Prasad - 1:2.9-16
- Rebuilt with OpenSSL 3.0.0
* Fri Sep 3 2021 Davide Caratti - 1:2.9-15
- Fix NetworkManager-CI failures with OpenSSL 3.0
* Tue Jul 27 2021 Dave Olsthoorn - 1:2.9-14
- Fix issues with FT a.k.a. 802.11r when not supported by adapter
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2041269 - wpa_supplicant-2.10 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2041269
[ 2 ] Bug #2044603 - CVE-2022-23303 wpa_supplicant: SAE side channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044603
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-41f5b208b2' 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

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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