CVE-2011-3364

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.

References

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3