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A hostapd security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: hostapd-2.10-3.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-da8222a1bc
2022-02-13 01:14:18.017207
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Name : hostapd
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 2.10
Release : 3.fc35
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 update for CVE-2022-23303, CVE-2022-23304 Update to version 2.10, which
upstream maintainer advises for these CVEs.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.10-3
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jan 19 2022 John W. Linville - 2.10-2
- Enable CONFIG_OCV build option to fight multi-channel MITM attacks
* Mon Jan 17 2022 John W. Linville - 2.10-1
- Update to version 2.10 from upstream
- Enable support for IEEE802.11ax
* Tue Sep 14 2021 Sahana Prasad - 2.9-13
- Rebuilt with OpenSSL 3.0.0
* Fri Sep 10 2021 Davide Caratti - 2.9-12
- backport fix for NetworkManager-ci failures with openssl-3.0.0
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2044599 - CVE-2022-23304 wpa_supplicant: EAP-pwd side-channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044599
[ 2 ] Bug #2044602 - CVE-2022-23303 wpa_supplicant: SAE side channel attacks as a result of cache access patterns
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044602
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-da8222a1bc' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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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