wpa_supplicant security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2021:0808

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: Use-after-free in P2P provision discovery processing (CVE-2021-27803)

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.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2021-March/086083.html

Affected packages:
wpa_supplicant

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0808