[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: hostapd-2.4-2.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-8386
2015-05-17 02:54:01
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Name        : hostapd
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.4
Release     : 2.fc20
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
* Thu Oct 23 2014 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.3-1
- Update to version 2.3 from upstream
* Sat Aug 16 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.2-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jun  7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.2-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jun  5 2014 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.2-1
- Update to version 2.2 from upstream
* Sat Feb 22 2014 Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> - 2.1-2
- Re-enable drivers (#1068849).
* Fri Feb 14 2014 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.1-1
- Update to version 2.1 from upstream
- Remove obsolete patch for libnl build documentation
* Mon Feb  3 2014 Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> - 2.0-6
- Add libnl build documentation and switch libnl-devel to libnl3-devel build
  dependency (#1041471).
* Fri Nov 22 2013 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> - 2.0-5
- Enable CONFIG_FULL_DYNAMIC_VLAN build option
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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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