DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5290

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.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-5290

Affected packages

Debian:12 / wpa

Package

Name: wpa
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/wpa?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:2.10-12+deb12u2

Affected versions

2:2.*

2:2.10-12

2:2.10-12+deb12u1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5290.json"

Debian:13 / wpa

Package

Name: wpa
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/wpa?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:2.10-22

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5290.json"

Debian:14 / wpa

Package

Name: wpa
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/wpa?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:2.10-22

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5290.json"