[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2014:1356-1: important: Security update for wpa_supplicant

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for wpa_supplicant

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1356-1

Rating: important

References: #868937 #900611

Cross-References: CVE-2014-3686

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

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An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata

is now available.

 

Description:

 

 

This update fixes a remote code execution vulnerability in

wpa_supplicant's wpa_cli and hostapd_cli tools. CVE-2014-3686 has been

assigned to this issue.

 

Additionally, password based authentication with PKCS#5v2 has been enabled.

 

Security Issues:

 

* CVE-2014-3686

 

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp3-wpa_supplicant-9894

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp3-wpa_supplicant-9894

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:

 

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-wpa_supplicant-9894

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (i586 x86_64):

 

wpa_supplicant-0.7.1-6.15.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

 

wpa_supplicant-0.7.1-6.15.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64):

 

wpa_supplicant-0.7.1-6.15.1

wpa_supplicant-gui-0.7.1-6.15.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3686.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868937

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=900611

http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=9f3807d02ddf4d7bc2ece4eadc5e4618

 

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