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Fedora 31: 2019-740834c559 Critical: hostapd AP Mode PMF Bypass

fedora
Calendar Grey November 9, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Implement critical security updates for Fedora's hostapd to protect against the PMF disconnection bypass vulnerability by following these steps outlined
Security fix CVE-2019-16275 (AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass)

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.

Security fix CVE-2019-16275 (AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass)

* Wed Oct 30 2019 John W. Linville - 2.9-2

- Fix CVE-2019-16275 (AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass)

[ 1 ] Bug #1767023 - CVE-2019-16275 wpa_supplicant: AP mode PMF disconnection protection bypass

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767023

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-740834c559' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 2.9
Release: 2.fc31
Summary: IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator

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