Advisories » MGASA-2022-0025

Updated wpa_supplicant packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Jan 2022
Modification date: 18 Jan 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-23303

Description

The implementations of SAE in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant
before 2.10 are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of cache
access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for
CVE-2019-9494.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29899
• https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/sae-eap-pwd-side-channel-attack-update-2.txt
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23303
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23303

SRPMS

8/core

• wpa_supplicant-2.9-8.3.mga8