Bug 769807 (CVE-2012-1096)

Summary:	CVE-2012-1096 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant: Improper x509v3 certificate and key file paths sanitization
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, dcbw, jklimes, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	799202
Bug Blocks:	756419

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-22 10:50:00 UTC

A security flaw was found in the way NetworkManager, a network connections manager, and wpa_supplicant, a WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X supplicant, performed system file paths sanitization for x509v3 certificate and private key files, used for connection to trusted networks. A local attacker, with the privilege to add new network connection, could use this flaw to read arbitrary system files.

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-22 11:00:05 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Ludwig Nussel of the SUSE security team for reporting this issue.

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-01 16:56:54 UTC

Public via:
[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/29/2

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-02 08:38:37 UTC

Created NetworkManager tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 799202]

Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-02 08:42:11 UTC

*** Bug 799194 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Josh Bressers 2014-06-13 16:34:01 UTC

We expect this to be fixed upstream in a future release.