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Published: 04/11/2011 Updated: 19/01/2012

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 614

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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

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