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Debian 2024: DSA-5739-1 Critical Local Escalation In WPA Supplicant

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2024
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Enhance your system's security by updating wpa components following the local privilege escalation issues in wpasupplicant, as detailed in Debian advisory DSA-5739-1.
Rory McNamara reported a local privilege escalation in wpasupplicant: A user able to escalate to the netdev group can load arbitrary shared object files in the context of the wpa_s...
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed
in version 2:2.9.0-21+deb11u2.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:2.10-12+deb12u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpa packages.

For the detailed security status of wpa please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wpa

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: wpa
CVE ID: CVE-2024-5290

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