Fedora 22: wpa_supplicant Security Update
Summary
wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support
for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA
component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation
with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11
authentication/association of the wlan driver.
Update Information:
The update adds a patch for the security issue in bug 1241907.
Change Log
* Wed Jul 15 2015 Jiřà Klimeš
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1241907 - hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Incomplete WPS and P2P NFC NDEF record payload length validation [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241907
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update wpa_supplicant' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .