Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gksu (opens in a new tab)
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- published18 Sept 2014
- disclosed18 Sept 2014
Introduced: 18 Sep 2014
CVE-2014-2886 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gksu package and not the gksu package as distributed by 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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-2886
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2886
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-10
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40023
- https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/07/07/virtualbox-filename-command-execution-via-gksu
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1186676