CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3364
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
Affected configurations
• gnome ifcfg-rh plug-in
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066828.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1338.html www.redhat.com
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/ Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338 Exploit, Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066828.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1338.html www.redhat.com
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/ Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338 Exploit, Patch