PT-2014-4946

CVE-2014-2886

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Published

2014-09-18

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Updated

2018-12-31

Description by

CVSS 2.0
6.8
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GKSu version 2.0.2
Description The issue allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations when an untrusted substring is present within a gksu-run-helper argument. This can occur, for example, during the installation of a VirtualBox extension pack when an untrusted filename is encountered.
Recommendations For GKSu version 2.0.2, consider enabling sudo-mode to mitigate the risk of arbitrary command execution. As a temporary workaround, restrict the use of gksu-run-helper with untrusted filenames until a patch is available.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-264
Related identifiers
CVE-2014-2886
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