[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: hostapd-2.0-5.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-13778
2014-10-28 05:17:26
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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.

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Update Information:

Apply fixes for CVE-2014-3686
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Oct 23 2014 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.0-5
- Apply fixes for CVE-2014-3686
* Wed Aug  7 2013 Simone Caronni <negativo17 at 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 at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.0-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jul 17 2013 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 2.0-2
- Perl 5.18 rebuild
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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
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update hostapd' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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