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HistoryOct 27, 2018 - 12:13 p.m.

Security update for wpa_supplicant (moderate)

2018-10-2712:13:57
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This update for wpa_supplicant provides the following fixes:

This security issues was fixe:

  • CVE-2018-14526: Under certain conditions, the integrity of EAPOL-Key
    messages was not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker
    within range of the Access Point and client could have abused the
    vulnerability to recover sensitive information (bsc#1104205)

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • Fix reading private key passwords from the configuration file.
    (bsc#1099835)
  • Enable PWD as EAP method. This allows for password-based authentication,
    which is easier to setup than most of the other methods, and is used by
    the Eduroam network. (bsc#1109209)
  • compile eapol_test binary to allow testing via radius proxy and server
    (note: this does not match CONFIG_EAPOL_TEST which sets -Werror and
    activates an assert call inside the code of wpa_supplicant)
    (bsc#1111873), (fate#326725)
  • Enabled timestamps in log file when being invoked by systemd service
    file (bsc#1080798).
  • Fixes the default file permissions of the debug log file to more sane
    values, i.e. it is no longer world-readable (bsc#1098854).
  • Open the debug log file with O_CLOEXEC, which will prevent file
    descriptor leaking to child processes (bsc#1098854).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.