openSUSE Security Update: NetworkManager ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:1273-1 Rating: moderate References: #574266 #702016 Cross-References: CVE-2006-7246 CVE-2011-2176 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 openSUSE 11.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. Description: NetworkManager did not pin a certificate's subject to an ESSID. A rogue access point could therefore be used to conduct MITM attacks by using any other valid certificate issued by same CA as used in the original network (CVE-2006-7246). Please note that existing WPA2 Enterprise connections need to be deleted and re-created to take advantage of the new security checks. NetworkManager did not honor the PolicyKit auth_admin setting when creating Ad-Hoc wireless networks (CVE-2011-2176) Special Instructions and Notes: Please reboot the system after installing this update. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch NetworkManager-5373 - openSUSE 11.3: zypper in -t patch NetworkManager-5373 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): NetworkManager-0.8.2-15.28.1 NetworkManager-devel-0.8.2-15.28.1 NetworkManager-doc-0.8.2-15.28.1 NetworkManager-glib-0.8.2-15.28.1 NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.2-9.12.1 wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-3.4.1 wpa_supplicant-gui-0.7.3-3.4.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (noarch): NetworkManager-gnome-lang-0.8.2-9.12.1 NetworkManager-lang-0.8.2-15.28.1 - openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64): NetworkManager-0.8-8.13.1 NetworkManager-devel-0.8-8.13.1 NetworkManager-doc-0.8-8.13.1 NetworkManager-glib-0.8-8.13.1 NetworkManager-gnome-0.8-6.3.2 wpa_supplicant-0.7.1-5.3.1 wpa_supplicant-gui-0.7.1-5.3.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-7246.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2176.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/574266 https://bugzilla.novell.com/702016