RHSA-2021:1686 - Security Advisory

Topic

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.

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1693684 - incorrect handling of p2p_listen (always use p2p_long_listen)
• BZ - 1888050 - Wlan's in a bridge won't do authentication properly when operating in AP mode
• BZ - 1888718 - RFE: export support for OWE via d-bus
• BZ - 1916394 - [RFE] Add WPA-EAP-SUITE-B-192 (WPA3-Enterprise)
• BZ - 1925152 - CVE-2021-0326 wpa_supplicant: P2P group information processing vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2021-0326

References

• 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/