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Medium ALSA-2024:2517 1 CVE

Moderate: wpa_supplicant security update

Published Apr 30, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The wpa_supplicant packages contain an 802.1X Supplicant with support for WEP, WPA, WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN), and various EAP authentication methods. They implement key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator for client stations and controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication and association of the WLAN driver.

Security Fix(es):

* wpa_supplicant: potential authorization bypass (CVE-2023-52160)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 wpa_supplicant 1:2.10-5.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52160
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2264593
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-2517.html