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A wpa_supplicant security update has been released for Fedora 32.



SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.9-6.fc32


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-99cad2b81f
2021-03-08 20:13:39.758231
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Name : wpa_supplicant
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 2.9
Release : 6.fc32
URL :   http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary : WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
Description :
wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support
for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA
component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation
with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11
authentication/association of the wlan driver.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2021-27803
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 1 2021 Davide Caratti - 1:2.9-6
- Fix a corner case in peer addition based on PD Request (CVE-2021-27803)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1933361 - CVE-2021-27803 wpa_supplicant: Use-after-free in P2P provision discovery processing
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933361
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-99cad2b81f' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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