CVE-2011-2709

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

libgssapi and libgssglue before 0.4 do not properly check privileges, which allows local users to load untrusted configuration files and execute arbitrary code via the GSSAPI_MECH_CONF environment variable, as demonstrated using mount.nfs.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

University of Michigan

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-21 15:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2013-03-02 04:33:00

Affected Software

University of Michigan libgssglue 0.1

0.1

University of Michigan libgssglue 0.2

0.2

University of Michigan libgssapi 0.1

0.1

University of Michigan libgssapi 0.2

0.2

References

FEDORA-2012-8067

FEDORA-2012-7971

SUSE-SU-2011:0696

45075

Vendor Advisory

50785

50973

http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/libgssglue/libgssglue-0.4.tar.gz

Patch

[oss-security] 20110721 CVE Request -- libgssapi, libgssglue -- Ability to load untrusted configuration file, when loading GSS mechanisms and their definitions during initialization

[oss-security] 20110722 Re: CVE Request -- libgssapi, libgssglue -- Ability to load untrusted configuration file, when loading GSS mechanisms and their definitions during initialization

[oss-security] 20110812 Re: CVE Request -- libgssapi, libgssglue -- Ability to load untrusted configuration file, when loading GSS mechanisms and their definitions during initialization

48490

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694598

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