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CVE-2011-3364

Publication date 4 November 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
network-manager 11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

This is for the redhat-specific plugin, but we need to check if the debian plugin has the same flaw, as it may be based on the same code We don't look vulnerable to this, and embedded newline chars seem to be handled correctly.