From: Peter Marko <[email protected]>

NVD CVE report [1] links Ubuntu bug [2] which has a very good
description/discussion about this issue.
It applies only to distros patching wpa-supplicant to allow non-root
users (e.g. via netdev group) to load modules.
This is not the case of Yocto.

Quote:
So upstream isn't vulnerable as they only expose the dbus interface to
root. Downstreams like Ubuntu and Chromium added a patch that grants
access to the netdev group. The patch is the problem, not the upstream
code IMHO.

There is also a commit [3] associated with this CVE, however that only
provides build-time configuration to limit paths which can be accessed
but it acts only as a mitigation for distros which allow non-root users
to load crafted modules.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5290
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613
[3] 
https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=c84388ee4c66bcd310db57489eac4a75fc600747

Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <[email protected]>
---
 meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb 
b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb
index 22028ce957..01dc72b385 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = ",,openssl"
 
 CVE_PRODUCT = "wpa_supplicant"
 
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2024-5290] = "not-applicable-platform: this only affects Ubuntu 
and other platforms patching wpa-supplicant"
+
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "'LIBDIR=${libdir}' 'INCDIR=${includedir}' 'BINDIR=${sbindir}'"
 
 do_configure () {
-- 
2.34.1

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