Bug 769807 – CVE-2012-1096 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant: Improper x509v3 certificate and key file paths sanitization

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Bug 769807 - (CVE-2012-1096) CVE-2012-1096 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant: Improper x509v3 certificate and key file paths sanitization

Summary:	CVE-2012-1096 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant: Improper x509v3 certificate and...

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

Aliases:	CVE-2012-1096

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Duplicates:	799194 (view as bug list)
Depends On:	799202
Blocks:	756419
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Reported:	2011-12-22 05:50 EST by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2015-07-31 02:46 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2014-06-13 12:34:01 EDT
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-22 05:50:00 EST

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 06:00:05 EST

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 11:56:54 EST

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

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-02 03:38:37 EST

Created NetworkManager tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 799202]

Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-02 03:42:11 EST

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

Comment 10 Josh Bressers 2014-06-13 12:34:01 EDT

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

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