USN-2383-1

Jouni Malinen discovered that the wpa_cli tool incorrectly sanitized strings when being used with action scripts. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / wpa

Package

Name: wpa
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/wpa@2.1-0ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.1-0ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.0-3ubuntu2

1.0-3ubuntu3

1.0-3ubuntu4

2.*

2.1-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.1-0ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "hostapd"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.1-0ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "wpagui"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.1-0ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "wpasupplicant"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-3686"
        }
    ]
}