RHSA-2014:1956Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: wpa_supplicant security update

Published
December 3, 2014
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2014-3686 →

📋 Description

CVE-2014-3686 — hostapd: wpa_cli and hostapd_cli remote command execution issue

🎯 Affected products20

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-1:2.0-13.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-1:2.0-13.el7_0.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-1:2.0-13.el7_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-1:2.0-13.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-1:2.0-13.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-1:2.0-13.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • wpa_supplicant-debuginfo-1:2.0-13.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (4)