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Updated hostapd packages has been released for Fedora 30



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-2265b5ae86
2019-11-09 22:37:54.009125
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 2.9
Release : 2.fc30
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 fix CVE-2019-16275 (AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 30 2019 John W. Linville - 2.9-2 - Fix CVE-2019-16275 (AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass) * Fri Aug 9 2019 John W. Linville - 2.9-1 - Update to version 2.9 from upstream
* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 3 2019 Lubomir Rintel - 2.8-2
- Enable SAE
* Wed May 15 2019 John W. Linville - 2.8-1 - Update to version 2.8 from upstream
- Drop obsoleted patches
* Fri Apr 12 2019 John W. Linville - 2.7-2 - Bump N-V-R for rebuild
* Fri Apr 12 2019 John W. Linville - 2.7-1 - Update to version 2.7 from upstream
- Remove obsolete patches for NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE encoding and KRACK - Fix CVE-2019-9494 (cache attack against SAE)
- Fix CVE-2019-9495 (cache attack against EAP-pwd)
- Fix CVE-2019-9496 (SAE confirm missing state validation in hostapd/AP) - Fix CVE-2019-9497 (EAP-pwd server not checking for reflection attack) - Fix CVE-2019-9498 (EAP-pwd server missing commit validation for scalar/element)
- Fix CVE-2019-9499 (EAP-pwd peer missing commit validation for scalar/element)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1767023 - CVE-2019-16275 wpa_supplicant: AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767023 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-2265b5ae86' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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