[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: hostapd-2.4-2.fc21
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Wed May 27 16:04:20 UTC 2015
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-8336
2015-05-17 02:52:11
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 2.4
Release : 2.fc21
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:
Security update for integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri May 15 2015 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.4-2
- apply fix for underflow in WMM action frame parser
* Tue Apr 21 2015 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.4-1
- Update to version 2.4 from upstream
- Enable support for IEEE802.11r and IEEE802.11ac
* Wed Feb 4 2015 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.3-4
- Use BSD instead of %doc for file containing license information
* Sun Nov 2 2014 poma <poma at gmail.com> - 2.3-3
- Further simplify hostapd.conf installation
- Rebase "EAP-TLS server" patch to 2.3
* Tue Oct 28 2014 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.3-2
- Remove version info from /usr/share/doc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
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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
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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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