Advisory Published

USN-6945-1: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability

First published: Tue Aug 06 2024(Updated: )

Rory McNamara discovered that wpa_supplicant could be made to load arbitrary shared objects by unprivileged users that have access to the control interface. An attacker could use this to escalate privileges to root.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/wpasupplicant<2:2.10-21ubuntu0.1
2:2.10-21ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=24.04
All of
ubuntu/wpasupplicant<2:2.10-6ubuntu2.1
2:2.10-6ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=22.04
All of
ubuntu/wpasupplicant<2:2.9-1ubuntu4.4
2:2.9-1ubuntu4.4
Ubuntu Ubuntu=20.04
All of
ubuntu/wpasupplicant<2:2.6-15ubuntu2.8+esm1
2:2.6-15ubuntu2.8+esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=18.04
All of
ubuntu/wpasupplicant<2.4-0ubuntu6.8+esm1
2.4-0ubuntu6.8+esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=16.04
All of
ubuntu/wpasupplicant<2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5
2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5
Ubuntu Ubuntu=14.04

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