Bug 2042540

Summary: Update wpa_supplicant to version 2.10
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Davide Caratti <dcaratti>
Component: wpa_supplicantAssignee: Davide Caratti <dcaratti>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ken Benoit <kbenoit>
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Version: 9.0CC: kbenoit, rvr, sukulkar
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Last Closed: 2022-05-17 15:59:05 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Davide Caratti 2022-01-19 16:50:09 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2042104 +++

wpa_supplicant-2.10 is out, and it should be included in RHEL as a replacement of the current release (an unofficial snapshot released to allow early testing of H2E functionality, see bz2007333).

--- Additional comment from Davide Caratti on 2022-01-18 20:09:08 UTC ---

@kbenoit: one of the most significative differences with the snapshot release is [1], that should allow using legacy cryptographic function without explicitly loading the legacy provider in openssl.cnf

[1] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=ff2eccbdf9541fc3491e8a5a302eb661208bb827

--- Additional comment from Ken Benoit on 2022-01-19 12:04:12 UTC ---

Providing an ack, but keep in mind that this is coming in very close to the line so in the best of circumstances for testing this is going to get verified right before the cutoff where blockers or exceptions are required.

Comment 1 Ken Benoit 2022-01-19 16:55:30 UTC
Just to reiterate in this bug as well, I'm providing the ack but this is very close to the exception/blocker-only line, so this is risky.

Comment 2 Davide Caratti 2022-01-20 09:18:59 UTC
(In reply to Ken Benoit from comment #1)
> Just to reiterate in this bug as well, I'm providing the ack but this is
> very close to the exception/blocker-only line, so this is risky.

hello Ken,

yes, also I would have liked 2.10 to pop up earlier. However, looking at the git log from the latest 2.9 snapshot we have in RHEL and 2.10, the list of changes looks short and relatively harmless. One of the most relevant things are


58bbcfa31 OpenSSL: Update security level drop for TLS 1.0/1.1 with OpenSSL 3.0
682fce579 OpenSSL: Fix compressed form encoding for subjectPublicKey with 3.0
ff2eccbdf OpenSSL: Load legacy provider when needed for OpenSSL 3.0
ddcdd6286 OpenSSL: Clean up EVP_PKEY_get{0,1}_EC_KEY() use
384aa245e OpenSSL: Speed up crypto_ec_point_compute_y_sqr()

that resumes some work Jouni did to work correctly with OpenSSL-3.0, and should allow us reverting the quirks we had in the selftests that globally enabled the OpenSSL legacy provider to compute DES / MD4 / RC4, and the following commits

8c502336d EAP-pwd: Derive the y coordinate for PWE with own implementation
6c380f4c8 SAE: Derive the y coordinate for PWE with own implementation

that includes a security update for the "dragonfly" problem (see [1]).

https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/.


I will push the code and the build ASAP.

thanks!

Comment 3 Ken Benoit 2022-02-09 16:15:28 UTC
Ran wireless regression testing against wpa_supplicant-2.10-2.el9 from BZ2032539 and didn't come across any issues. Marking as Verified:Tested and SanityOnly.

Comment 6 Davide Caratti 2022-02-10 16:24:44 UTC
*** Bug 2052328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Ken Benoit 2022-02-17 14:12:01 UTC
Ran wireless regression testing against RHEL-9.0.0-20220216.0 (wpa_supplicant-2.10-2.el9) against recent wireless cards (AX201, AX211, QCA6390). Testing passed without issue. Verifying as SanityOnly.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-17 15:59:05 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (new packages: wpa_supplicant), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:3991