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RHEL 7 : wpa_supplicant (RHSA-2014:1956)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79711

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An updated wpa_supplicant package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The wpa_supplicant package contains an 802.1X Supplicant with support for WEP, WPA, WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN), and various EAP authentication methods. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator for client stations and controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication and association of the WLAN driver.

A command injection flaw was found in the way the wpa_cli utility executed action scripts. If wpa_cli was run in daemon mode to execute an action script (specified using the -a command line option), and wpa_supplicant was configured to connect to a P2P group, malicious P2P group parameters could cause wpa_cli to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2014-3686)

Red Hat would like to thank Jouni Malinen for reporting this issue.

All wpa_supplicant users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected wpa_supplicant and / or wpa_supplicant-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1956

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3686

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79711

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1956.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wpa_supplicant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wpa_supplicant-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3686

BID: 70396

RHSA: 2014:1956