A wpa_supplicant security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
RHSA-2021:1686-01: Moderate: wpa_supplicant security, bug fix, and enhancement update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: wpa_supplicant security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1686-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1686
Issue date: 2021-05-18
CVE Names: CVE-2021-0326
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1. Summary:
An update for wpa_supplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
The wpa_supplicant packages contain an 802.1X Supplicant with support for
WEP, WPA, WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN), and various EAP authentication
methods. They implement key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator for client
stations and controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication and
association of the WLAN driver.
Security Fix(es):
* wpa_supplicant: P2P group information processing vulnerability
(CVE-2021-0326)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1693684 - incorrect handling of p2p_listen (always use p2p_long_listen)
1888050 - Wlan's in a bridge won't do authentication properly when operating in AP mode
1888718 - RFE: export support for OWE via d-bus
1916394 - [RFE] Add WPA-EAP-SUITE-B-192 (WPA3-Enterprise)
1925152 - CVE-2021-0326 wpa_supplicant: P2P group information processing vulnerability
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source:
wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.s390x.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-5.el8.s390x.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-5.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
wpa_supplicant-2.9-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.9-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debugsource-2.9-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-0326
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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