Fedora 16 Update: wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-9.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-10032
2011-08-01 20:11:58
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Name        : wpa_supplicant
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.7.3
Release     : 9.fc16
URL         : http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary     : WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
Description :
wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support
for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA
component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation
with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11
authentication/association of the wlan driver.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a crash when used with certain access points.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #678625 - Crashes parsing WPA IE
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678625
  [ 2 ] Bug #725517 - Constant wifi disconnects caused by wpa_supplicant crash due to incorrect dbus use
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725517
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update wpa_supplicant' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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