CVE-2012-2389 - Prohibitionary Sexkitten

Description

hostapd 0.7.3 and possibly other versions before 1.0 uses 0644 permissions for /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information such as credentials.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081983.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824660 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740964 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/13 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/5 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:168