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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-9137 (hostapd)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: hostapd-0.7.3-9.fc17
Date:  Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:58:28 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120619145830.31BCD20B2D@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-9137 2012-06-08 23:27:01 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : hostapd Product : Fedora 17 Version : 0.7.3 Release : 9.fc17 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: Remove hostapd-specific runtime state directory Fixup typo in pid file path in hostapd.service Add BuildRequires for systemd-units Fixup typo in configuration file path in hostapd.service -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jun 8 2012 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - 0.7.3-9 - Remove hostapd-specific runtime state directory * Wed Jun 6 2012 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - 0.7.3-8 - Fixup typo in pid file path in hostapd.service * Wed May 30 2012 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - 0.7.3-7 - Add BuildRequires for systemd-units * Fri May 25 2012 John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> - 0.7.3-6 - Fixup typo in configuration file path in hostapd.service - Tighten-up default permissions for hostapd.conf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #818800 - hostapd.service pointing to the wrong config file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818800 [ 2 ] Bug #824661 - CVE-2012-2389 hostapd: insecure default permissions on /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824661 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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