On 2017-10-21, harry newton wrote:
He who is William Unruh said on Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:57:13 -0000 (UTC):

You do not tell us which Linux you are refering to.
Note that 2.4 probably does not have the fix.
But it all depends on your distro.

Thanks William for that detailed technical answer.

I apologize for not providing complete information.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/21/ubuntu_version.jpg

Debian (on which Ubuntu is based) came out with those patches on Monday
I think. Ie, the version on the Ubuntu sight by Wed was probably the
patched version. If yours was installed befor Wed it almost certainly is
not patched. Definitely if it was before Mon the 16th it is not patched.


$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
$ cat /etc/*release | grep VERSION
VERSION="16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"

Windows does not use wpa_supplicant. That is an open source wpa program.
It is used by Android, but again it is probably not a "stock" version,
but may well have been altered by the phone manufacturer to include
special features of the wireless chipset they use.

Thanks William. It's so refreshing to deal with actual technical answers!

Here is what my Android 4.3 phone just reported:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/21/android_wpa.jpg

It really says nothing. They could have patched that version of 2.1 Or
probably not. Although there is a claim in the original that it was
wpa_supplicant 2.4 and later that were problematic. And that it is
android 6 and later that is problematic. I have no idea whether that is
because those are the only ones tested, or because earlier ones are OK.



$ wpa_supplication -version
wpa_supplicant v2.1-d15el-4.3 2015-08-13/21:13:54
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