Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/21/3 ↗
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694598 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082297.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45075 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48490 ↗
- http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/libgssglue/libgssglue-0.4.tar.gz ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/4 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082072.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/12/10 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50785 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50973 ↗
- http://lwn.net/Alerts/449415/ ↗