Attachment 147946 Details for Bug 194122 – patch for wpa_supplicant.conf.5

[patch] patch for wpa_supplicant.conf.5

wpa_supplicant.conf.5.REL=ALL.diff (text/plain), 1.07 KB, created by jhs on 2014-10-03 21:21:11 UTC

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Created: 2014-10-03 21:21:11 UTC

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>http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.5.REL=ALL.diff
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>*** 11.0-CURRENT-2014-10-03/src/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.5	Fri Oct  3 13:46:03 2014
>--- new/src/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.5	Fri Oct  3 22:51:07 2014
>***************
>*** 138,143 ****
>--- 138,153 ----
>  Access points that cloak themselves by not broadcasting their SSID
>  require technique 1, but beware that this scheme can cause scanning
>  to take longer to complete.
>+ .br
>+ Security Caution, If you assert scan_ssid=1 (Instead of default scan_ssid=0):
>+ .in +2
>+ Instead of just sending a broadcast Probe Request frame,
>+ FreeBSD would also send directed Probe Request frames with specific names.
>+ Those network names would be observable to hostile 3rd parties,
>+ & could be abused as per
>+ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28891937
>+ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2014-October/005097.html
>+ .in -2
>  .It Va bssid
>  Network BSSID (typically the MAC address of the access point).
>  .It Va priority

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