-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-13778 2014-10-28 05:17:26 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : hostapd Product : Fedora 19 Version : 2.0 Release : 5.fc19 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:
Apply fixes for CVE-2014-3686 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Thu Oct 23 2014 John W. Linville linville@redhat.com - 2.0-5 - Apply fixes for CVE-2014-3686 * Wed Aug 7 2013 Simone Caronni negativo17@gmail.com - 2.0-4 - Add EPEL 6 support. - Remove obsolete EPEL 5 tags. - Little spec file formatting. * Sat Aug 3 2013 Fedora Release Engineering rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org - 2.0-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 17 2013 Petr Pisar ppisar@redhat.com - 2.0-2 - Perl 5.18 rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1151259 - CVE-2014-3686 wpa_supplicant and hostapd: wpa_cli and hostapd_cli remote command execution issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151259 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update hostapd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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