OpenWrt 19.07.9 service release

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Mon Feb 28 15:27:25 PST 2022


Hi,

The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the newest service release of 
OpenWrt 19.07. It fixes security issues, improves device support, and 
brings a few bug fixes.

We recently moved our bugs to GitHub, please report issues over there 
(after checking that nobody else posted the same issue before).
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/

The main changes from OpenWrt 19.07.8 are:

Security fixes
==============

  * hostapd: Apply SAE/EAP-pwd side-channel attack update 2
    (CVE-2022-23303, CVE-2022-23304)
  * mbedtls: Update to version 2.16.12 to fix CVE-2021-44732
  * tcpdump: fix CVE-2018-16301
  * openssl: fix SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow (CVE-2021-3711) and Read
    buffer overruns processing ASN.1 strings (CVE-2021-3712)

Major bug fixes
===============

  * No major bug fixes in this release

Device support
==============

  * uboot-lantiq: danube: fix hanging lzma kernel uncompression
  * ar71xx: mikrotik: rb91x: fix 10M ethernet link speed

Various fixes and improvements
==============================

  * Update wireless-regdb to account for new regulatory rules (6 GHz,
    60 GHz, and various other fixes)
  * sdk: fix missing include directories
  * Various fixes when building with GCC 10

Core components
===============

  * Update Linux kernel from 4.14.241 to 4.14.267
  * Update mac80211 from 4.19.193-1 to 4.19.221-1
  * Update openssl from 1.1.1k to 1.1.1m
  * Update mbedtls from 2.16.10 to 2.16.12

Full release notes and upgrade instructions are available at
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.9

In particular, make sure to read the regressions and known issues before
upgrading:
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.9#regressions

For a very detailed list of all changes since 19.07.8, refer to
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/changelog-19.07.9

For latest information about the 19.07 series, refer to the wiki at:
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/

To download a OpenWrt 19.07.9 firmware image for your device, head to 
the Table of Hardware:
https://openwrt.org/toh/start

Or use the new firmware selector:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/

You can also navigate directly in the list of firmware images:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.9/targets/

As always, a big thank you goes to all our active package maintainers,
testers, documenters, and supporters.

Have fun!

The OpenWrt Community

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