openSUSE Security Update : wpa_supplicant (openSUSE-2019-871)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123362

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for wpa_supplicant provides the following fixes :

This security issues was fixe :

- CVE-2018-14526: Under certain conditions, the integrity of EAPOL-Key messages was not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker within range of the Access Point and client could have abused the vulnerability to recover sensitive information (bsc#1104205)

These non-security issues were fixed :

- Fix reading private key passwords from the configuration file. (bsc#1099835)

- Enable PWD as EAP method. This allows for password-based authentication, which is easier to setup than most of the other methods, and is used by the Eduroam network.
(bsc#1109209)

- compile eapol_test binary to allow testing via radius proxy and server (note: this does not match CONFIG_EAPOL_TEST which sets -Werror and activates an assert call inside the code of wpa_supplicant) (bsc#1111873), (fate#326725)

- Enabled timestamps in log file when being invoked by systemd service file (bsc#1080798).

- Fixes the default file permissions of the debug log file to more sane values, i.e. it is no longer world-readable (bsc#1098854).

- Open the debug log file with O_CLOEXEC, which will prevent file descriptor leaking to child processes (bsc#1098854).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected wpa_supplicant packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123362

File Name: openSUSE-2019-871.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/27/2019

Updated: 6/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14526

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wpa_supplicant-gui-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wpa_supplicant-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wpa_supplicant, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wpa_supplicant-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wpa_supplicant-gui

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14526

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