============================================================================ Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2383-1 October 14, 2014 wpa, wpasupplicant vulnerability ============================================================================ A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Summary: wpa_supplicant could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software Description: - wpa: client support for WPA and WPA2 - wpasupplicant: client support for WPA and WPA2 Details: 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. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: wpasupplicant 0.7.3-6ubuntu2.3 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: wpasupplicant 0.6.9-3ubuntu3.2 After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2383-1 CVE-2014-3686 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2.1-0ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/0.7.3-6ubuntu2.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/0.6.9-3ubuntu3.2