wpa_supplicant-2.5

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Security update.

Including for 7.8, but don't know if anybody will have time today, in which case just change to 7.9.

    * fixed P2P validation of SSID element length before copying it
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-1/] (CVE-2015-1863)
	* fixed WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/] (CVE-2015-4141)
	* fixed WMM Action frame parser (AP mode)
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-3/] (CVE-2015-4142)
	* fixed EAP-pwd peer missing payload length validation
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/]
	  (CVE-2015-4143, CVE-2015-4144, CVE-2015-4145, CVE-2015-4146)
	* fixed validation of WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-5/]

​https://w1.fi/releases/wpa_supplicant-2.5.tar.gz

​https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/ChangeLog

​https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt

or

​http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2015-September/033798.html

hostapd/wpa_supplicant - new release v2.5
Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Sep 27 15:48:36 EDT 2015

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ChangeLog for wpa_supplicant

2015-09-27 - v2.5
	* fixed P2P validation of SSID element length before copying it
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-1/] (CVE-2015-1863)
	* fixed WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-2/] (CVE-2015-4141)
	* fixed WMM Action frame parser (AP mode)
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-3/] (CVE-2015-4142)
	* fixed EAP-pwd peer missing payload length validation
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-4/]
	  (CVE-2015-4143, CVE-2015-4144, CVE-2015-4145, CVE-2015-4146)
	* fixed validation of WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length
	  [http://w1.fi/security/2015-5/]
	* nl80211:
	  - added VHT configuration for IBSS
	  - fixed vendor command handling to check OUI properly
	  - allow driver-based roaming to change ESS
	* added AVG_BEACON_RSSI to SIGNAL_POLL output
	* wpa_cli: added tab completion for number of commands
	* removed unmaintained and not yet completed SChannel/CryptoAPI support
	* modified Extended Capabilities element use in Probe Request frames to
	  include all cases if any of the values are non-zero
	* added support for dynamically creating/removing a virtual interface
	  with interface_add/interface_remove
	* added support for hashed password (NtHash) in EAP-pwd peer
	* added support for memory-only PSK/passphrase (mem_only_psk=1 and
	  CTRL-REQ/RSP-PSK_PASSPHRASE)
	* P2P
	  - optimize scan frequencies list when re-joining a persistent group
	  - fixed number of sequences with nl80211 P2P Device interface
	  - added operating class 125 for P2P use cases (this allows 5 GHz
	    channels 161 and 169 to be used if they are enabled in the current
	    regulatory domain)
	  - number of fixes to P2PS functionality
	  - do not allow 40 MHz co-ex PRI/SEC switch to force MCC
	  - extended support for preferred channel listing
	* D-Bus:
	  - fixed WPS property of fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.BSS interface
	  - fixed PresenceRequest to use group interface
	  - added new signals: FindStopped, WPS pbc-overlap,
	    GroupFormationFailure, WPS timeout, InvitationReceived
	  - added new methods: WPS Cancel, P2P Cancel, Reconnect, RemoveClient
	  - added manufacturer info
	* added EAP-EKE peer support for deriving Session-Id
	* added wps_priority configuration parameter to set the default priority
	  for all network profiles added by WPS
	* added support to request a scan with specific SSIDs with the SCAN
	  command (optional "ssid <hexdump>" arguments)
	* removed support for WEP40/WEP104 as a group cipher with WPA/WPA2
	* fixed SAE group selection in an error case
	* modified SAE routines to be more robust and PWE generation to be
	  stronger against timing attacks
	* added support for Brainpool Elliptic Curves with SAE
	* added support for CCMP-256 and GCMP-256 as group ciphers with FT
	* fixed BSS selection based on estimated throughput
	* added option to disable TLSv1.0 with OpenSSL
	  (phase1="tls_disable_tlsv1_0=1")
	* added Fast Session Transfer (FST) module
	* fixed OpenSSL PKCS#12 extra certificate handling
	* fixed key derivation for Suite B 192-bit AKM (this breaks
	  compatibility with the earlier version)
	* added RSN IE to Mesh Peering Open/Confirm frames
	* number of small fixes

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 16492.