PSA: WPA2 Key Reinstallation Attack fix released

Archive note: this announcement was originally published by the Parrot project on October 17, 2017 and is kept here for reference. parrotlinux.org is an independent site, not the project's official website. For current information see the latest release notes.

Parrot Linux Advisory:

WPA packages updated!

We are happy to announce that the wpa source package that provides wpasupplicant, hostapd and wpagui is now updated to version 2.4-1.1 and it is available in our stable repository

upgrade the system now to fix the WPA2 protocol implementation

the updated packages can be manually downloaded from https://archive.parrotsec.org/parrot/pool/main/w/wpa

the security patch was imported from debian where it was releqsed by Yves-Alexis Perez of the Debian Security Team

the bugfix closes the following CVEs:

CVE-2017-13077

CVE-2017-13078

CVE-2017-13079

CVE-2017-13080

CVE-2017-13081

CVE-2017-13082

CVE-2017-13086

CVE-2017-13087

CVE-2017-13088

Debian Security Advisory:

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3999

WPA2 Attack Paper:

ccs2017-wpa