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



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