Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wpa_supplicant: security bump to 2.12

Julien Olivain via buildroot <[email protected]>
Newsgroups net.busybox.buildroot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Waldemar, Sergey,

On 16/08/2026 14:43, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> forgot to add Maintainer to CC.
> 
> Waldemar Brodkorb wrote,
> 
>> See here for a Changelog:
>> https://git.w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/wpa_supplicant/ChangeLog?id=e6386389448a4e0ec568fa7a27026e03f95bb768
>> 
>> Security issues fixed in this release:
>> https://w1.fi/security/2026-4/incomplete-bounds-checking-of-mesh-ampe-messages-in-wpa_supplicant.txt
>> https://w1.fi/security/2026-3/unexpected-sae-commit-message-contents-terminating-wpa_suppliant.txt
>> https://w1.fi/security/2026-2/missing-network-context-validation-for-pmksa-caching.txt
>> https://w1.fi/security/2026-1/missing-ml-parsing-validation.txt
>> 
>> Patches 0001 and 0002 are upstream.
>> 
>> Tested on Raspberry PI4 (64 Bit).
>> 
>> License changed:
>> -Copyright (c) 2002-2024, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]> and contributors
>> +Copyright (c) 2002-2026, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]> and contributors
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <[email protected]>
>> ---
[...]
>> diff --git a/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.hash 
>> b/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.hash
>> index 2f38dc257a..bea1e99b1f 100644
>> --- a/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.hash
>> +++ b/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.hash
>> @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
>>  # Locally calculated
>> -sha256  
>> 912ea06f74e30a8e36fbb68064d6cdff218d8d591db0fc5d75dee6c81ac7fc0a  
>> wpa_supplicant-2.11.tar.gz
>> -sha256  
>> f1b5992bbdd015c3ccb7faaadd62ef58ed821e15b9329bf2ceb27511ccc3f562  
>> README
>> +sha256  
>> 08e23937e16d0155e55cab2b51f51fbe10d80a1aa91c4e15442645059b737ef6  
>> wpa_supplicant-2.12.tar.gz
>> +sha256  
>> 83be1b142c59ccf0d6c5dde0695d8f84dfba109bea058e78ec2942389ccf327f  
>> README
>> diff --git a/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk 
>> b/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
>> index fe4bc34d55..93ac228947 100644
>> --- a/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
>> +++ b/package/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.mk
>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>>  #
>>  
>> ################################################################################
>> 
>> -WPA_SUPPLICANT_VERSION = 2.11
>> +WPA_SUPPLICANT_VERSION = 2.12

While testing, I was wondering if we shouldn't also update
hostapd to v2.12: https://w1.fi/hostapd/

What do you think?

>>  WPA_SUPPLICANT_SITE = http://w1.fi/releases
>>  WPA_SUPPLICANT_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
>>  WPA_SUPPLICANT_LICENSE_FILES = README
>> --
>> 2.47.3

Best regards,

Julien.
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