CVE-2011-3364

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/184.html 'CWE-184: Incomplete Blacklist'

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.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/184.html 'CWE-184: Incomplete Blacklist'

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

GNOME Network Manager

First reported 13 years ago

2011-11-04 21:55:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2012-01-19 03:59:00

Affected Software

GNOME Network Manager 0.8.1

0.8.1

GNOME Network Manager 0.9.0

0.9.0

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