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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-8303
2015-05-16 08:32:53
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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.

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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@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
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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