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Fedora 24 Update: NetworkManager 1.2 Moderate Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2016
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Fedora 24 enhances NetworkManager with improved security measures and an intuitive interface, streamlining network management and boosting reliability and protection
Update to NetworkManager 1.2-beta3

Summary

NetworkManager is a system service that manages network interfaces and

connections based on user or automatic configuration. It supports

Ethernet, Bridge, Bond, VLAN, Team, InfiniBand, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband

(WWAN), PPPoE and other devices, and supports a variety of different VPN

services.

Update Information:

Update to NetworkManager 1.2-beta3. Upstream release announcement: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2016-March/msg00164.html

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #756418 - CVE-2006-7246 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant (WPA-Enterprise): Verify that the certificate is from trusted CA and matches the specified subject https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=756418

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update NetworkManager' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: NetworkManager
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.2.0
Release: 0.8.beta3.fc24
URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps
Summary: Network connection manager and user applications

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