Issued:
2018-04-10
Updated:
2018-04-10

RHBA-2018:0840 - wpa_supplicant bug fix update

Synopsis

wpa_supplicant bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

An update for wpa_supplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of wpa_supplicant are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.6ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 97ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 647aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • wpa_supplicant-2.6-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-2.6-9.el7.src.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-2.6-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-2.6-9.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-9.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-9.el7.s390x.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-2.6-9.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-2.6-9.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • wpa_supplicant-2.6-9.el7.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information