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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-f409af9fbe
2019-04-23 20:13:25.293606
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 2.7
Release : 2.fc29
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:
Update to version 2.7 from upstream Security fix for CVE-2019-9494 (cache attack
against SAE) Security fix for CVE-2019-9495 (cache attack against EAP-pwd)
Security fix for CVE-2019-9496 (SAE confirm missing state validation in
hostapd/AP) Security fix for CVE-2019-9497 (EAP-pwd server not checking for
reflection attack) Security fix for CVE-2019-9498 (EAP-pwd server missing commit
validation for scalar/element) Security fix for CVE-2019-9499 (EAP-pwd peer
missing commit validation for scalar/element)
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Apr 12 2019 John W. Linville <linville(a)redhat.com> - 2.7-2
- Bump N-V-R for rebuild
* Fri Apr 12 2019 John W. Linville <linville(a)redhat.com> - 2.7-1
- Update to version 2.7 from upstream
- Remove obsolete patches for NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE encoding and KRACK
- Fix CVE-2019-9494 (cache attack against SAE)
- Fix CVE-2019-9495 (cache attack against EAP-pwd)
- Fix CVE-2019-9496 (SAE confirm missing state validation in hostapd/AP)
- Fix CVE-2019-9497 (EAP-pwd server not checking for reflection attack)
- Fix CVE-2019-9498 (EAP-pwd server missing commit validation for scalar/element)
- Fix CVE-2019-9499 (EAP-pwd peer missing commit validation for scalar/element)
* Fri Feb 1 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.6-12
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1699141 - CVE-2019-9494 wpa_supplicant: SAE Timing-based and Cache-based
side-channel attack against WPA3's Dragonfly handshake
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699141
[ 2 ] Bug #1699149 - CVE-2019-9495 wpa_supplicant: EAP-pwd cache side-channel attack
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699149
[ 3 ] Bug #1699153 - CVE-2019-9496 hostapd: SAE confirm missing state validation in
hostapd/AP
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699153
[ 4 ] Bug #1699164 - CVE-2019-9497 wpa_supplicant: EAP-pwd server not checking for
reflection attack
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699164
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-f409af9fbe' 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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