-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-8303 2015-05-16 08:32:53 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : hostapd Product : Fedora 22 Version : 2.4 Release : 2.fc22 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:
Security update for integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Fri May 15 2015 John W. Linville linville@redhat.com - 2.4-2 - apply fix for underflow in WMM action frame parser * Tue Apr 21 2015 John W. Linville linville@redhat.com - 2.4-1 - Update to version 2.4 from upstream - Enable support for IEEE802.11r and IEEE802.11ac -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1221178 - wpa_supplicant and hostapd: integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221178 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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