Vulnerability CVE-2011-3364
Published: 2011-11-04   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Gnome -> Ifcfg-rh plug-in 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1338.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066828.html
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