CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-2886

Published: Sep 18, 2014 | Modified: Dec 31, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gksu Nongnu 2.0.2 (including) 2.0.2 (including)

References