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CVE-2011-3364

Published: Nov 4, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/

x_refsource_MISC

FEDORA-2011-13425

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338

x_refsource_MISC

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_MANDRIVA

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

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