Secure your Slackware 14.x with wpa_supplicant patch—update now!
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-i586-2_slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update contains patches for these security issues: The implementations of EAP-pwd in hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9495. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23303 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23304 (* Security fix *)
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Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/wpa_supplicant-2.9-i586-2_slack14.2.txz
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MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.0 package:
2280cd5ac650efbea19b99d1dd4c59a8 wpa_supplicant-2.9-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
80a689b41fc5d0d2fd64dd7373d17530 wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
60745a47367d06a15bf358bb95de258a wpa_supplicant-2.9-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
34c12ac12179e237fcb6bca437748ef8 wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
cb302d2051b664a4b62c16064f71cef2 wpa_supplicant-2.9-i586-2_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
9d043357433ce14c3f12fa8c0684f6d5 wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
5e683e2388ed350249245c16f319a0d4 n/wpa_supplicant-2.10-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
e47c6496be9200b2917d6fde4e503c75 n/wpa_supplicant-2.10-x86_64-1.txz
Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg wpa_supplicant-2.9-i586-2_slack14.2.txz