937483 – (CVE-2024-5290) net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: possible privilege escalation

Bug 937483 (CVE-2024-5290) - net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: possible privilege escalation

Summary: net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: possible privilege escalation

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	CVE-2024-5290

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-...
Whiteboard:	A1 [ebuild]
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Reported:	2024-08-07 07:19 UTC by foufou33
Modified:	2024-08-12 06:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description foufou33 2024-08-07 07:19:58 UTC

fom debian/ubuntu 
CVE-2024-5290
An issue was discovered in 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).

Patch available here: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/742553699/wpa_2%3A2.10-21_2%3A2.10-21ubuntu0.1.diff.gz

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 foufou33 2024-08-07 07:21:12 UTC

Debian's DSA https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5739-1