-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-45044b6b33 2017-11-15 19:03:16.426489 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : hostapd Product : Fedora 26 Version : 2.6 Release : 6.fc26 URL : http://w1.fi/hostapd Summary : IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator Description : hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server.
hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the back-ground and acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is included with hostapd.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Latest hostapd release with KRACK patches applied. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1503874 - KRACK affects hostapd https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1503874 [ 2 ] Bug #1502588 - 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 hostapd: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1502588 [ 3 ] Bug #1468942 - attempting to create Access Point overrides modprobe for wifi and crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468942 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade hostapd' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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