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Fedora Update for hostapd FEDORA-2019-2265b5ae86

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Fedora Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

4 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'hostapd' package(s) announced via the FEDORA-2019-2265b5ae86 advisory.

Insight

Insight

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.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'hostapd' package(s) on Fedora 30.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Please install the updated package(s).