[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: wpa_supplicant-2.0-14.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-11691
2015-07-17 23:26:02
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Name        : wpa_supplicant
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.0
Release     : 14.fc21
URL         : http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Summary     : WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
Description :
wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support
for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA
component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation
with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11
authentication/association of the wlan driver.

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Update Information:

The update adds a patch for the security issue in bug 1241907.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul 15 2015 Jiří Klimeš <jklimes at redhat.com> - 1:2.0-14
- Fix for NDEF record payload length checking (rh #1241907)
* Thu Apr 23 2015 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> - 1:2.0-13
- backport fix for CVE-2015-1863
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1241907 - hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241907
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update wpa_supplicant' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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