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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-740834c559
2019-11-09 21:19:32.242223
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 2.9
Release : 2.fc31
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:
Security fix CVE-2019-16275 (AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass)
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Oct 30 2019 John W. Linville <linville(a)redhat.com> - 2.9-2
- Fix CVE-2019-16275 (AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1767023 - CVE-2019-16275 wpa_supplicant: AP mode PMF disconnection protection
bypass
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767023
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-740834c559' 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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