wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Posted:
Oct 16th, '17, 13:46
by wintpe
For everyones interest.
https://www.krackattacks.com/posting it here, as this is where i think most people land.
regards peter
Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Posted:
Oct 16th, '17, 16:53
by jameno123
Patches for WPA supplicant can be found here:
https://w1.fi/security/2017-1/Hopefully Mageia team can release a fixed version quickly!
Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Posted:
Oct 17th, '17, 17:05
by merlin
Thanks for the link to the patches! I was having difficulty finding them.
Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Posted:
Oct 17th, '17, 18:11
by doktor5000
jameno123 wrote:Patches for WPA supplicant can be found here:
https://w1.fi/security/2017-1/Hopefully Mageia team can release a fixed version quickly!
update candidates are already up for testing:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21879
Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Posted:
Oct 19th, '17, 05:25
by cldjean
Hello
I've read about the weakness of WP2 and of krack attack. I suppose that Mageia is concerned by this issue.
What should I do ? Wait for the moment until having an update or do something else ?
Thank you
Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Posted:
Oct 20th, '17, 00:47
by doktor5000
cldjean wrote:What should I do ? Wait for the moment until having an update or do something else ?
If you read the above linked bug report, you notice that the update candidates have already been pushed.
Check
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0379.html
Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Posted:
Oct 20th, '17, 03:03
by cldjean
Thank you for your great work
In the mageia updates today the wpa_replicant was integrated.
Bests regards