CVE-2011-3364 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066828.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1338.html http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338