CVE-2011-2709 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082072.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082297.html http://lwn.net/Alerts/449415/ http://secunia.com/advisories/45075 http://secunia.com/advisories/50785 http://secunia.com/advisories/50973 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/libgssglue/libgssglue-0.4.tar.gz http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/21/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/12/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48490 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694598