Vulnerability in GNOME Ifcfg-Rh Plug-In
CVE-2011-3364
Incomplete 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.
EPSS: 0.005 (37.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gnome Ifcfg-rh_plug-in
- Gnome Networkmanager — versions 0.8.1, 0.9.0, 0.9.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)