Fedora 27 Update: hostapd-2.6-9.fc27
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-5c9f54423f
2018-06-12 15:19:41.269653
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 2.6
Release : 9.fc27
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.
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Update Information:
backport fix for Fix NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE encoding (rh #1582839)
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ChangeLog:
* Tue May 29 2018 Davide Caratti <dcaratti(a)redhat.com> - 2.6-9
- backport fix for Fix NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE encoding (rh #1582839)
* Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.6-8
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Dec 7 2017 Simone Caronni <negativo17(a)gmail.com> - 2.6-7
- Fix dependencies on the logwatch package for RHEL/CentOS.
* Fri Nov 3 2017 Xavier Bachelot <xavier(a)bachelot.org> - 2.6-6
- Add patches for KRACK : 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 (RHBZ#1502588).
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1582839 - netlink: 'hostapd': attribute type 213 has an invalid
length
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1582839
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-5c9f54423f' 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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