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A hostapd security update has been released for Fedora 32.



SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: hostapd-2.9-4.fc32


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-df3e1cfde9
2020-07-03 01:17:34.897015
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 2.9
Release : 4.fc32
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:

Fix CVE-2020-12695 (UPnP SUBSCRIBE misbehavior in hostapd WPS AP)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 24 2020 Johwn W. Linville - 2.9-4
- Fix CVE-2020-12695 (UPnP SUBSCRIBE misbehavior in hostapd WPS AP)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1846006 - CVE-2020-12695 hostapd: UPnP SUBSCRIBE misbehavior in WPS AP
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1846006
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-df3e1cfde9' 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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