Bug 937483

Summary:	net-wireless/wpa_supplicant possible privilege escalation
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	foufou33
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	foufou33, zerochaos
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-5290
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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