-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8611 2012-05-29 21:37:02 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : hostapd Product : Fedora 15 Version : 0.7.3 Release : 2.1.fc15 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Tighten-up default permissions for hostapd.conf (CVE-2012-2389) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue May 29 2012 John W. Linville <[email protected]> - 0.7.3-2.1.fc15 - Tighten-up default permissions for hostapd.conf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #826109 - CVE-2012-2389 hostapd: insecure default permissions on /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826109 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update hostapd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
