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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2019-6ea040e59b
2019-04-30 00:41:49.999469
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 2.7
Release : 1.el7
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:
Update to version 2.7 from upstream Security fix for CVE-2019-9494 (cache attack
against SAE) Security fix for CVE-2019-9495 (cache attack against EAP-pwd)
Security fix for CVE-2019-9496 (SAE confirm missing state validation in
hostapd/AP) Security fix for CVE-2019-9497 (EAP-pwd server not checking for
reflection attack) Security fix for CVE-2019-9498 (EAP-pwd server missing commit
validation for scalar/element) Security fix for CVE-2019-9499 (EAP-pwd peer
missing commit validation for scalar/element)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1699141 - CVE-2019-9494 wpa_supplicant: SAE Timing-based and Cache-based
side-channel attack against WPA3's Dragonfly handshake
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699141
[ 2 ] Bug #1699149 - CVE-2019-9495 wpa_supplicant: EAP-pwd cache side-channel attack
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699149
[ 3 ] Bug #1699153 - CVE-2019-9496 hostapd: SAE confirm missing state validation in
hostapd/AP
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699153
[ 4 ] Bug #1699164 - CVE-2019-9497 wpa_supplicant: EAP-pwd server not checking for
reflection attack
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699164
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update hostapd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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