vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3217-1: network-manager-applet vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 7, 2017
Added
Mar 8, 2017
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description


Frederic Bardy and Quentin Biguenet discovered that network-manager-applet incorrectly checked permissions when connecting to certain wireless networks. A local attacker could use this issue at the login screen to access local files.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-network-manager-gnome
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