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wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Postby wintpe » Oct 16th, '17, 13:46

For everyones interest.

https://www.krackattacks.com/

posting it here, as this is where i think most people land.

regards peter
Redhat 6 Certified Engineer (RHCE)
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Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Postby jameno123 » Oct 16th, '17, 16:53

Patches for WPA supplicant can be found here:
https://w1.fi/security/2017-1/

Hopefully Mageia team can release a fixed version quickly!
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Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Postby merlin » Oct 17th, '17, 17:05

Thanks for the link to the patches! I was having difficulty finding them.
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Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 17th, '17, 18:11

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
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Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Postby cldjean » Oct 19th, '17, 05:25

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
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Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 20th, '17, 00:47

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
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Re: wpa2 security weaknesses discovered.

Postby cldjean » Oct 20th, '17, 03:03

Thank you for your great work

In the mageia updates today the wpa_replicant was integrated.

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