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Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package spice-gtk  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-SPICEGTK-671163
  • published18 Sept 2012
  • disclosed18 Sept 2012
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Introduced: 18 Sep 2012

CVE-2012-4425  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spice-gtk package and not the spice-gtk package as distributed by Ubuntu.

libgio, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in spice-gtk and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a vulnerability in the applications that do not cleanse environment variables, not in libgio itself.