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SUSE Security Announcement
Package: NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant, NetworkManager-gnome
Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2011:045
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:00:00 +0000
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3
openSUSE 11.4
openSUSE 12.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
Vulnerability Type: man in the middle
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
SUSE Default Package: yes
Cross-References: CVE-2006-7246
Content of This Advisory:
1) Security Vulnerability Resolved:
NetworkManager man in the middle attack
Problem Description
2) Solution or Work-Around
3) Special Instructions and Notes
4) Package Location and Checksums
5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:
- none
6) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information
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1) Problem Description and Brief Discussion
When 802.11X authentication is used (ie WPA Enterprise)
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 the same CA as used
in the original network (CVE-2006-7246). If password based
authentication is used (e.g. via PEAP or EAP-TTLS) this means an
attacker could sniff and potentially crack the password hashes of
the victims.
The certificate checks are only performed on newly created
connections. Users must therefore delete and re-create any existing
WPA Enterprise connections using e.g. nm-connection-editor to take
advantage of the checks.
knetworkmanager is also affected by but a fix is currently not
available. Users of knetworkmanager are advised to use nm-applet for
802.11X networks instead.
The following document gives a more detailed explanation about the
problem in general. Administrators are advised to take the
opportunity to review security of their wireless networks if 802.11X
authentication is used.
http://www.suse.de/~lnussel/The_Evil_Twin_problem_with_WPA2-Enterprise_v1.1.pdf
2) Solution or Work-Around
There is no known workaround, please install the update packages. As
precautionary measure you may turn off automatically connecting to
WPA Enterprise networks.
3) Special Instructions and Notes
Please reboot after the update and re-create any WPA Enterprise
connections from scratch.
4) Package Location and Checksums
The preferred method for installing security updates is to use the YaST
"Online Update" module or the "zypper" commandline tool. The package and
patch management stack will detect which updates are required and
automatically perform the necessary steps to verify and install them.
Alternatively, download the update packages for your distribution manually
and verify their integrity by the methods listed in Section 6 of this
announcement. Then install the packages using the command
rpm -Fhv
to apply the update, replacing with the filename of the
downloaded RPM package.
x86 Platform:
openSUSE 11.4:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-0.8.2-15.28.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-devel-0.8.2-15.28.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-doc-0.8.2-15.28.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-glib-0.8.2-15.28.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.2-9.12.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/i586/wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-3.4.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/i586/wpa_supplicant-gui-0.7.3-3.4.1.i586.rpm
openSUSE 11.3:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-0.8-8.13.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-devel-0.8-8.13.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-doc-0.8-8.13.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-glib-0.8-8.13.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/i586/NetworkManager-gnome-0.8-6.3.2.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/i586/wpa_supplicant-0.7.1-5.3.1.i586.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/i586/wpa_supplicant-gui-0.7.1-5.3.1.i586.rpm
Platform Independent:
openSUSE 11.4:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/noarch/NetworkManager-gnome-lang-0.8.2-9.12.1.noarch.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/noarch/NetworkManager-lang-0.8.2-15.28.1.noarch.rpm
x86-64 Platform:
openSUSE 11.4:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-0.8.2-15.28.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-devel-0.8.2-15.28.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-doc-0.8.2-15.28.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-glib-0.8.2-15.28.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.2-9.12.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-3.4.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-gui-0.7.3-3.4.1.x86_64.rpm
openSUSE 11.3:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-0.8-8.13.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-devel-0.8-8.13.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-doc-0.8-8.13.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-glib-0.8-8.13.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/x86_64/NetworkManager-gnome-0.8-6.3.2.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-0.7.1-5.3.1.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-gui-0.7.1-5.3.1.x86_64.rpm
Sources:
openSUSE 11.4:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/src/NetworkManager-0.8.2-15.28.1.src.rpm
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.4/rpm/src/wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-3.4.1.src.rpm
openSUSE 11.3:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.3/rpm/src/wpa_supplicant-0.7.1-5.3.1.src.rpm
Our maintenance customers are notified individually. The packages are
offered for installation from the maintenance web:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1
https://login.microfocus.com/nidp/app/login
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1
https://login.microfocus.com/nidp/app/login
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
https://login.microfocus.com/nidp/app/login
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5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:
- none
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