[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: hostapd-2.3-1.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-13608
2014-10-27 07:53:15
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Name        : hostapd
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.3
Release     : 1.fc21
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:

Security fix for CVE-2014-3686.  Update to version 2.3 from upstream.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1151259 - CVE-2014-3686 wpa_supplicant and hostapd: wpa_cli and hostapd_cli remote command execution issue
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151259
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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
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