CVE-2014-2886 Information

Description

GKSu 2.0.2 when sudo-mode is not enabled uses \ (double quote) characters in a gksu-run-helper argument which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during installation of a VirtualBox extension pack.

Reference

http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40023 https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/07/07/virtualbox-filename-command-execution-via-gksu https://launchpad.net/bugs/1186676 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-10