CVE-2014-2886

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 18, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Apr 17, 2014

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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

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

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