Debian: CVE-2024-5290: wpa -- security update

Debian: CVE-2024-5290: wpa -- security update

Severity

7

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

08/08/2024

Created

08/08/2024

Added

08/08/2024

Modified

01/28/2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Ubuntu wpa_supplicant that resulted in loading of arbitrary shared objects, which allows a local unprivileged attacker to escalate privileges to the user that wpa_supplicant runs as (usually root). Membership in the netdev group or access to the dbus interface of wpa_supplicant allow an unprivileged user to specify an arbitrary path to a module to be loaded by the wpa_supplicant process; other escalation paths might exist.

Solution(s)

• debian-upgrade-wpa

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-5290
• CVE - 2024-5290
• DSA-5739-1