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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-11374
2015-07-13 16:42:43
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Name        : hostapd
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 2.4
Release     : 3.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:

apply fix for NDEF record payload length checking
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jul 10 2015 John W. Linville  - 2.4-3
- apply fix for NDEF record payload length checking
* Fri May 15 2015 John W. Linville  - 2.4-2
- apply fix for underflow in WMM action frame parser
* Tue Apr 21 2015 John W. Linville  - 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 #1241905 - hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241905
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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 .

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/security/
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Fedora 22: hostapd Security Update

July 23, 2015
apply fix for NDEF record payload length checking

Summary

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.

Update Information:

apply fix for NDEF record payload length checking

Change Log

* Fri Jul 10 2015 John W. Linville - 2.4-3 - apply fix for NDEF record payload length checking * Fri May 15 2015 John W. Linville - 2.4-2 - apply fix for underflow in WMM action frame parser * Tue Apr 21 2015 John W. Linville - 2.4-1 - Update to version 2.4 from upstream - Enable support for IEEE802.11r and IEEE802.11ac

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1241905 - hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241905

Update Instructions

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 .

Severity
Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 2.4
Release : 3.fc22
URL : http://w1.fi/hostapd/
Summary : IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator

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