[slackware-security] wpa_supplicant (SSA:2015-132-03)

[slackware-security]  wpa_supplicant (SSA:2015-132-03)

New wpa_supplicant packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current
to fix security issues.


Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.
1.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update fixes potential denial of service issues.
  For more information, see:
    http://w1.fi/security/2015-1/wpa_supplicant-p2p-ssid-overflow.txt
    http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/wps-upnp-http-chunked-transfer-encoding.txt
    http://w1.fi/security/2015-3/integer-underflow-in-ap-mode-wmm-action-frame.txt
    http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/eap-pwd-missing-payload-length-validation.txt
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1863
  (* Security fix *)
+--------------------------+


Where to find the new packages:
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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project!  :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-2.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-2.txz


MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.0 package:
7f0be52bb776a4271e2c75c4a36ff6b2  wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
51465ca8c06051e104c640e00c52c828  wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware 14.1 package:
6f6241c6acb4f425d1f3d8c049897563  wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
890d7affeaa810b132b751e8d786104e  wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware -current package:
ee59505664ba2dffc0de89613ff0aaa7  n/wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-2.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
faddaa8944aee1696ac50d634c68b369  n/wpa_supplicant-2.4-x86_64-2.txz


Installation instructions:
+------------------------+

Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg wpa_supplicant-2.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz


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Slackware Linux Security Team
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