CVE-2011-2709 (GCVE-0-2011-2709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-21 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:08
VLAI?
Summary
libgssapi and libgssglue before 0.4 do not properly check privileges, which allows local users to load untrusted configuration files and execute arbitrary code via the GSSAPI_MECH_CONF environment variable, as demonstrated using mount.nfs.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/21/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694598 x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/45075 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48490 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/li… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/50785 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/50973 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lwn.net/Alerts/449415/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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