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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: wpa_supplicant security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:2911-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2911
Issue date: 2017-10-18
CVE Names: CVE-2017-13077 CVE-2017-13078 CVE-2017-13080
CVE-2017-13087
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1. Summary:
An update for wpa_supplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
3. 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):
* A new exploitation technique called key reinstallation attacks (KRACK)
affecting WPA2 has been discovered. A remote attacker within Wi-Fi range
could exploit these attacks to decrypt Wi-Fi traffic or possibly inject
forged Wi-Fi packets by manipulating cryptographic handshakes used by the
WPA2 protocol. (CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13080,
CVE-2017-13087)
Red Hat would like to thank CERT for reporting these issues. Upstream
acknowledges Mathy Vanhoef (University of Leuven) as the original reporter
of these issues.
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1491692 - CVE-2017-13077 wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the pairwise key in the 4-way handshake
1491693 - CVE-2017-13078 wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the group key in the 4-way handshake
1491696 - CVE-2017-13080 wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the group key in the group key handshake
1500303 - CVE-2017-13087 wpa_supplicant: reinstallation of the group key (GTK) when processing a Wireless Network Management (WNM) Sleep Mode Response frame
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.src.rpm
i386:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.i686.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.i686.rpm
x86_64:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.x86_64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
Source:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.src.rpm
x86_64:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.x86_64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.src.rpm
i386:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.i686.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.i686.rpm
ppc64:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.ppc64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.s390x.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.x86_64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.src.rpm
i386:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.i686.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.i686.rpm
x86_64:
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.x86_64.rpm
wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-0.7.3-9.el6_9.2.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13077
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13078
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13080
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13087
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/kracks
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
