The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5739 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5739-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso     August 06, 2024                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : wpa     CVE ID         : CVE-2024-5290

    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_supplicant process running as     root.

    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/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/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Debian dsa-5739 : eapoltest - security update

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