Import wpa_supplicant hand hostapd 2.11. Previous was 2.9

1. Changes for hostapd:

2024-07-20 - v2.11
* Wi-Fi Easy Connect
- add support for DPP release 3
- allow Configurator parameters to b

Import wpa_supplicant hand hostapd 2.11. Previous was 2.9

1. Changes for hostapd:

2024-07-20 - v2.11
* Wi-Fi Easy Connect
- add support for DPP release 3
- allow Configurator parameters to be provided during config exchange
* HE/IEEE 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6
- various fixes
* EHT/IEEE 802.11be/Wi-Fi 7
- add preliminary support
* SAE: add support for fetching the password from a RADIUS server
* support OpenSSL 3.0 API changes
* support background radar detection and CAC with some additional
drivers
* support RADIUS ACL/PSK check during 4-way handshake (wpa_psk_radius=3)
* EAP-SIM/AKA: support IMSI privacy
* improve 4-way handshake operations
- use Secure=1 in message 3 during PTK rekeying
* OCV: do not check Frequency Segment 1 Channel Number for 160 MHz cases
to avoid interoperability issues
* support new SAE AKM suites with variable length keys
* support new AKM for 802.1X/EAP with SHA384
* extend PASN support for secure ranging
* FT: Use SHA256 to derive PMKID for AKM 00-0F-AC:3 (FT-EAP)
- this is based on additional details being added in the IEEE 802.11
standard
- the new implementation is not backwards compatible
* improved ACS to cover additional channel types/bandwidths
* extended Multiple BSSID support
* fix beacon protection with FT protocol (incorrect BIGTK was provided)
* support unsynchronized service discovery (USD)
* add preliminary support for RADIUS/TLS
* add support for explicit SSID protection in 4-way handshake
(a mitigation for CVE-2023-52424; disabled by default for now, can be
enabled with ssid_protection=1)
* fix SAE H2E rejected groups validation to avoid downgrade attacks
* use stricter validation for some RADIUS messages
* a large number of other fixes, cleanup, and extensions

2022-01-16 - v2.10
* SAE changes
- improved protection against side channel attacks
[https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/]
- added option send SAE Confirm immediately (sae_config_immediate=1)
after SAE Commit
- added support for the hash-to-element mechanism (sae_pwe=1 or
sae_pwe=2)
- fixed PMKSA caching with OKC
- added support for SAE-PK
* EAP-pwd changes
- improved protection against side channel attacks
[https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/]
* fixed WPS UPnP SUBSCRIBE handling of invalid operations
[https://w1.fi/security/2020-1/]
* fixed PMF disconnection protection bypass
[https://w1.fi/security/2019-7/]
* added support for using OpenSSL 3.0
* fixed various issues in experimental support for EAP-TEAP server
* added configuration (max_auth_rounds, max_auth_rounds_short) to
increase the maximum number of EAP message exchanges (mainly to
support cases with very large certificates) for the EAP server
* added support for DPP release 2 (Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol)
* extended HE (IEEE 802.11ax) support, including 6 GHz support
* removed obsolete IAPP functionality
* fixed EAP-FAST server with TLS GCM/CCM ciphers
* dropped support for libnl 1.1
* added support for nl80211 control port for EAPOL frame TX/RX
* fixed OWE key derivation with groups 20 and 21; this breaks backwards
compatibility for these groups while the default group 19 remains
backwards compatible; owe_ptk_workaround=1 can be used to enabled a
a workaround for the group 20/21 backwards compatibility
* added support for Beacon protection
* added support for Extended Key ID for pairwise keys
* removed WEP support from the default build (CONFIG_WEP=y can be used
to enable it, if really needed)
* added a build option to remove TKIP support (CONFIG_NO_TKIP=y)
* added support for Transition Disable mechanism to allow the AP to
automatically disable transition mode to improve security
* added support for PASN
* added EAP-TLS server support for TLS 1.3 (disabled by default for now)
* a large number of other fixes, cleanup, and extensions


2. Changes for wpa_supplicant

2024-07-20 - v2.11
* Wi-Fi Easy Connect
- add support for DPP release 3
- allow Configurator parameters to be provided during config exchange
* MACsec
- add support for GCM-AES-256 cipher suite
- remove incorrect EAP Session-Id length constraint
- add hardware offload support for additional drivers
* HE/IEEE 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6
- support BSS color updates
- various fixes
* EHT/IEEE 802.11be/Wi-Fi 7
- add preliminary support
* support OpenSSL 3.0 API changes
* improve EAP-TLS support for TLSv1.3
* EAP-SIM/AKA: support IMSI privacy
* improve mitigation against DoS attacks when PMF is used
* improve 4-way handshake operations
- discard unencrypted EAPOL frames in additional cases
- use Secure=1 in message 2 during PTK rekeying
* OCV: do not check Frequency Segment 1 Channel Number for 160 MHz cases
to avoid interoperability issues
* support new SAE AKM suites with variable length keys
* support new AKM for 802.1X/EAP with SHA384
* improve cross-AKM roaming with driver-based SME/BSS selection
* PASN
- extend support for secure ranging
- allow PASN implementation to be used with external programs for
Wi-Fi Aware
* FT: Use SHA256 to derive PMKID for AKM 00-0F-AC:3 (FT-EAP)
- this is based on additional details being added in the IEEE 802.11
standard
- the new implementation is not backwards compatible, but PMKSA
caching with FT-EAP was, and still is, disabled by default
* support a pregenerated MAC (mac_addr=3) as an alternative mechanism
for using per-network random MAC addresses
* EAP-PEAP: require Phase 2 authentication by default (phase2_auth=1)
to improve security for still unfortunately common invalid
configurations that do not set ca_cert
* extend SCS support for QoS Characteristics
* extend MSCS support
* support unsynchronized service discovery (USD)
* add support for explicit SSID protection in 4-way handshake
(a mitigation for CVE-2023-52424; disabled by default for now, can be
enabled with ssid_protection=1)
- in addition, verify SSID after key setup when beacon protection is
used
* fix SAE H2E rejected groups validation to avoid downgrade attacks
* a large number of other fixes, cleanup, and extensions

2022-01-16 - v2.10
* SAE changes
- improved protection against side channel attacks
[https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/]
- added support for the hash-to-element mechanism (sae_pwe=1 or
sae_pwe=2); this is currently disabled by default, but will likely
get enabled by default in the future
- fixed PMKSA caching with OKC
- added support for SAE-PK
* EAP-pwd changes
- improved protection against side channel attacks
[https://w1.fi/security/2022-1/]
* fixed P2P provision discovery processing of a specially constructed
invalid frame
[https://w1.fi/security/2021-1/]
* fixed P2P group information processing of a specially constructed
invalid frame
[https://w1.fi/security/2020-2/]
* fixed PMF disconnection protection bypass in AP mode
[https://w1.fi/security/2019-7/]
* added support for using OpenSSL 3.0
* increased the maximum number of EAP message exchanges (mainly to
support cases with very large certificates)
* fixed various issues in experimental support for EAP-TEAP peer
* added support for DPP release 2 (Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol)
* a number of MKA/MACsec fixes and extensions
* added support for SAE (WPA3-Personal) AP mode configuration
* added P2P support for EDMG (IEEE 802.11ay) channels
* fixed EAP-FAST peer with TLS GCM/CCM ciphers
* improved throughput estimation and BSS selection
* dropped support for libnl 1.1
* added support for nl80211 control port for EAPOL frame TX/RX
* fixed OWE key derivation with groups 20 and 21; this breaks backwards
compatibility for these groups while the default group 19 remains
backwards compatible
* added support for Beacon protection
* added support for Extended Key ID for pairwise keys
* removed WEP support from the default build (CONFIG_WEP=y can be used
to enable it, if really needed)
* added a build option to remove TKIP support (CONFIG_NO_TKIP=y)
* added support for Transition Disable mechanism to allow the AP to
automatically disable transition mode to improve security
* extended D-Bus interface
* added support for PASN
* added a file-based backend for external password storage to allow
secret information to be moved away from the main configuration file
without requiring external tools
* added EAP-TLS peer support for TLS 1.3 (disabled by default for now)
* added support for SCS, MSCS, DSCP policy
* changed driver interface selection to default to automatic fallback
to other compiled in options
* a large number of other fixes, cleanup, and extensions

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2018-12-02 - v2.7
* fixed WPA packet number reuse with replayed messages and key
reinstallation
[https://w1.fi/security/2017-1/] (CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017-13078,
CVE-2017-13079, CVE-2017-13080,

2018-12-02 - v2.7
* fixed WPA packet number reuse with replayed messages and key
reinstallation
[https://w1.fi/security/2017-1/] (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)
* fixed unauthenticated EAPOL-Key decryption in wpa_supplicant
[https://w1.fi/security/2018-1/] (CVE-2018-14526)
* added support for FILS (IEEE 802.11ai) shared key authentication
* added support for OWE (Opportunistic Wireless Encryption, RFC 8110;
and transition mode defined by WFA)
* added support for DPP (Wi-Fi Device Provisioning Protocol)
* added support for RSA 3k key case with Suite B 192-bit level
* fixed Suite B PMKSA caching not to update PMKID during each 4-way
handshake
* fixed EAP-pwd pre-processing with PasswordHashHash
* added EAP-pwd client support for salted passwords
* fixed a regression in TDLS prohibited bit validation
* started to use estimated throughput to avoid undesired signal
strength based roaming decision
* MACsec/MKA:
- new macsec_linux driver interface support for the Linux
kernel macsec module
- number of fixes and extensions
* added support for external persistent storage of PMKSA cache
(PMKSA_GET/PMKSA_ADD control interface commands; and
MESH_PMKSA_GET/MESH_PMKSA_SET for the mesh case)
* fixed mesh channel configuration pri/sec switch case
* added support for beacon report
* large number of other fixes, cleanup, and extensions
* added support for randomizing local address for GAS queries
(gas_rand_mac_addr parameter)
* fixed EAP-SIM/AKA/AKA' ext auth cases within TLS tunnel
* added option for using random WPS UUID (auto_uuid=1)
* added SHA256-hash support for OCSP certificate matching
* fixed EAP-AKA' to add AT_KDF into Synchronization-Failure
* fixed a regression in RSN pre-authentication candidate selection
* added option to configure allowed group management cipher suites
(group_mgmt network profile parameter)
* removed all PeerKey functionality
* fixed nl80211 AP and mesh mode configuration regression with
Linux 4.15 and newer
* added ap_isolate configuration option for AP mode
* added support for nl80211 to offload 4-way handshake into the driver
* added support for using wolfSSL cryptographic library
* SAE
- added support for configuring SAE password separately of the
WPA2 PSK/passphrase
- fixed PTK and EAPOL-Key integrity and key-wrap algorithm selection
for SAE;
note: this is not backwards compatible, i.e., both the AP and
station side implementations will need to be update at the same
time to maintain interoperability
- added support for Password Identifier
- fixed FT-SAE PMKID matching
* Hotspot 2.0
- added support for fetching of Operator Icon Metadata ANQP-element
- added support for Roaming Consortium Selection element
- added support for Terms and Conditions
- added support for OSEN connection in a shared RSN BSS
- added support for fetching Venue URL information
* added support for using OpenSSL 1.1.1
* FT
- disabled PMKSA caching with FT since it is not fully functional
- added support for SHA384 based AKM
- added support for BIP ciphers BIP-CMAC-256, BIP-GMAC-128,
BIP-GMAC-256 in addition to previously supported BIP-CMAC-128
- fixed additional IE inclusion in Reassociation Request frame when
using FT protocol

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