- Issued:
- 2008-05-21
- Updated:
- 2008-05-21
RHBA-2008:0473 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
wpa_supplicant bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated wpa_supplicant packages that fix various bugs are now available.
Description
WPA Supplicant provides support for WPA and WPA2. WPA Supplicant implements
key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator, controls roaming, and the
authentication and association of the WLAN driver.
These updated packages fix the following bugs:
- a bug in the "condrestart" argument of the wpa_supplicant init script may
have caused problems for starting, stopping, and restarting the
wpa_supplicant service. For example, running the "service wpa_supplicant
condrestart" command may have attempted to start the wpa_supplicant
service, even if the wpa_supplicant service was stopped. In these updated
packages, the "condrestart" argument only restarts the wpa_supplicant
service if the service is already running.
- the "fragment_size" configuration option has been backported to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5. Without being able to set the fragment size to 1300 or
less, it was not possible to successfully negotiate WPA Enterprise
connections, such as those using a RADIUS server, to networks using a Cisco
Aironet 1131AG Access Point, and certain configurations of the FreeRADIUS
RADIUS server. Note: this issue may have affected other access points and
RADIUS servers.
All wpa_supplicant users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which resolve these issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 217281 - The init script gets 'condrestart' argument wrong
- BZ - 427843 - Backport the 'fragment_size' option
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
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wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 482c0e67e895a8533c89b2790872843492224d363e6b196ae8d8ddfd07c289be |
x86_64 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 2f412474977208c9cee555fa2abc4012e950be4dd21e4f66a1df1be6a1af8022 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f7306c79880656952b399c0f3ba18f92343bf195aebcccdc8d4e33b27de70e |
ia64 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 6d4d227880504c2226cbcbd5feec6eb238467beb6522341fad03ec9092340951 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: e3cc3c6f657ac3a183c2410e68022ea77652f5073d7c574bbad735d245dfd8e7 |
i386 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: c6a8195c053d8efa5b76532a6ceaf495cddc05a25e507d9c3c697e1f2d279170 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 0e40a64eacabe8c0a4e4c6875e08169954c4229c8c0bf3111867b743d029d007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 482c0e67e895a8533c89b2790872843492224d363e6b196ae8d8ddfd07c289be |
x86_64 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 2f412474977208c9cee555fa2abc4012e950be4dd21e4f66a1df1be6a1af8022 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f7306c79880656952b399c0f3ba18f92343bf195aebcccdc8d4e33b27de70e |
i386 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: c6a8195c053d8efa5b76532a6ceaf495cddc05a25e507d9c3c697e1f2d279170 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 0e40a64eacabe8c0a4e4c6875e08169954c4229c8c0bf3111867b743d029d007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 482c0e67e895a8533c89b2790872843492224d363e6b196ae8d8ddfd07c289be |
x86_64 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 2f412474977208c9cee555fa2abc4012e950be4dd21e4f66a1df1be6a1af8022 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f7306c79880656952b399c0f3ba18f92343bf195aebcccdc8d4e33b27de70e |
i386 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: c6a8195c053d8efa5b76532a6ceaf495cddc05a25e507d9c3c697e1f2d279170 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 0e40a64eacabe8c0a4e4c6875e08169954c4229c8c0bf3111867b743d029d007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 482c0e67e895a8533c89b2790872843492224d363e6b196ae8d8ddfd07c289be |
ppc | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 0cdd692dd0d4ebbbfd5e7d32ddf034e4c0105c88a9704060812d202a1acdfcf3 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 03f85bf8428bed0059f47cd1d29704d42cd978fe3438461f64324dfe48faa18d |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 482c0e67e895a8533c89b2790872843492224d363e6b196ae8d8ddfd07c289be |
x86_64 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 2f412474977208c9cee555fa2abc4012e950be4dd21e4f66a1df1be6a1af8022 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f7306c79880656952b399c0f3ba18f92343bf195aebcccdc8d4e33b27de70e |
i386 | |
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: c6a8195c053d8efa5b76532a6ceaf495cddc05a25e507d9c3c697e1f2d279170 |
wpa_supplicant-gui-0.4.8-10.2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 0e40a64eacabe8c0a4e4c6875e08169954c4229c8c0bf3111867b743d029d007 |
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