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

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notifi
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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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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