CVE-2011-3364

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-3364
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-11-04 21:55:00 UTC
Updated2012-01-19 03:59:00 UTC
DescriptionIncomplete blacklist vulnerability in the svEscape function in settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/shvar.c in the ifcfg-rh plug-in for GNOME NetworkManager 0.9.1, 0.9.0, 0.8.1, and possibly other versions, when PolicyKit is configured to allow users to create new connections, allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the name for a new network connection, which is not properly handled when writing to the ifcfg file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Ifcfg-rh Plug-in All All All All
Application Gnome Ifcfg-rh Plug-in All All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager 0.8.1 All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager 0.9.0 All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager 0.9.1 All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager 0.8.1 All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager 0.9.0 All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager 0.9.1 All All All

References

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Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
CVE-2011-3364: GNOME NetworkManager Local Privilege Escalation « xorl %eax, %eax MISC xorl.wordpress.com Exploit
[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: NetworkManager-0.9.1.90-3.git20110927.fc16 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
737338 – (CVE-2011-3364) CVE-2011-3364 NetworkManager: Console user can escalate to root via newlines in ifcfg-rh connection name MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Patch
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2011:171 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
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