- Issued:
- 2018-10-30
- Updated:
- 2018-10-30
RHSA-2018:3107 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Moderate: wpa_supplicant security and bug fix update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An update for wpa_supplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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.
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: Unauthenticated EAPOL-Key decryption in wpa_supplicant (CVE-2018-14526)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x
Fixes
- BZ - 1434434 - wpa_supplicant is responding to packets which are not destined for it.
- BZ - 1490885 - NetworkManager's mac randomization can lead into MSK mismatch with hostapd and 802.1x
- BZ - 1614520 - CVE-2018-14526 wpa_supplicant: Unauthenticated EAPOL-Key decryption in wpa_supplicant
CVEs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
x86_64 | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: a61dcf3c31bc66497c86d007870305008e2ab6d11fc6a570af179afa19bfcbc2 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: a99c0944f1fced2fe3359b279e8ed6013eb5caa4552f2a7eb226ce4fd66cd263 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
x86_64 | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: a61dcf3c31bc66497c86d007870305008e2ab6d11fc6a570af179afa19bfcbc2 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: a99c0944f1fced2fe3359b279e8ed6013eb5caa4552f2a7eb226ce4fd66cd263 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
x86_64 | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: a61dcf3c31bc66497c86d007870305008e2ab6d11fc6a570af179afa19bfcbc2 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: a99c0944f1fced2fe3359b279e8ed6013eb5caa4552f2a7eb226ce4fd66cd263 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
s390x | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: fdcefbc7cf164c3beac1d1b899f095c0893dfbcd5516e501cfae880ede862341 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 80c45ad55f1d48e80ca8d478cf36717492d6bacb3322b8e2277bf8c7a4d14c13 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
ppc64 | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 499ff924649e7a70c49f22b722b5fe11400a75462a0b0fd51fbe71d09f710399 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 29eba533435998742b501915435c186bb11c41ca03cb4234232fbc55e3651fe1 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
x86_64 | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: a61dcf3c31bc66497c86d007870305008e2ab6d11fc6a570af179afa19bfcbc2 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: a99c0944f1fced2fe3359b279e8ed6013eb5caa4552f2a7eb226ce4fd66cd263 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
ppc64le | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: a16457ce2379ba1c12e4f2a8afa7fc4d8dbc42cb68b37c064e5886421de21f95 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: f218385041853bdefff31b814101c3fc69c60171949749f9dee1222291f48b97 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
aarch64 | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: 32f7ae27de74702af59a15e68e1d5944e4071aad137ed5b42b46fc9bfce93a59 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: 73127dfe69b6a9eb7f8aea413d2cd6e9c7ae866eba6a8149c6e5f6cb9fb5b1eb |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
ppc64le | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: a16457ce2379ba1c12e4f2a8afa7fc4d8dbc42cb68b37c064e5886421de21f95 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: f218385041853bdefff31b814101c3fc69c60171949749f9dee1222291f48b97 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2a9c47b5d896668b17bc3470f0ca77e94c0358de40c7f975afcadb2f308724fe |
s390x | |
wpa_supplicant-2.6-12.el7.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: fdcefbc7cf164c3beac1d1b899f095c0893dfbcd5516e501cfae880ede862341 |
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-12.el7.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 80c45ad55f1d48e80ca8d478cf36717492d6bacb3322b8e2277bf8c7a4d14c13 |
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