GHSA-J48Q-4C78-RHF9 openssl-encrypt: Dynamic .so loading for Whirlpool uses broad glob pattern without integrity verification

Severity: HIGH Summary The Whirlpool hash implementation in opensslencrypt/modules/registry/hashregistry.py at lines 570-589 uses glob patterns to find .so modules in site-packages and loads the first match via importlib without verifying module integrity. Affected Code python for sitepkg in...

USN-6945-1: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability

Rory McNamara discovered that wpasupplicant could be made to load arbitrary shared objects by unprivileged users that have access to the control interface. An attacker could use this to escalate privileges to root...