CVE-2014-2886

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-2886
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-09-18 10:55:00 UTC
Updated2018-12-31 11:29:00 UTC
DescriptionGKSu 2.0.2, when sudo-mode is not enabled, uses " (double quote) characters in a gksu-run-helper argument, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument, as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during installation of a VirtualBox extension pack.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nongnu Gksu 2.0.2 All All All
Application Nongnu Gksu 2.0.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug #1186676 “gksu handles quoted strings wrongly” : Bugs : gksu package : Ubuntu MISC launchpad.net
GKSu - Bugs: bug #40023, command is not escaped when... [Savannah] MISC savannah.nongnu.org
GKSu: Arbitrary command execution (GLSA 201812-10) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Metasploit: GKsu and VirtualBox Root Command Ex... | Rapid7 Community MISC community.rapid7.com Exploit
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