Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability in GNOME NetworkManager

CVE-2011-3364 · MEDIUM Severity

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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