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CVE-2011-3364 Details

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the svEscape function in settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/shvar.c in the ifcfg-rh plug-in for GNOME NetworkManager 0.9.1, 0.9.0, 0.8.1, and possibly other versions, when PolicyKit is configured to allow users to create new connections, allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the name for a new network connection, which is not properly handled when writing to the ifcfg file.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066828.html	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338	CVE	ExploitPatch
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171	CVE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1338.html	CVE
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/	CVE	Exploit
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066828.html	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737338	[email protected]	ExploitPatch
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171	[email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1338.html	[email protected]
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/cve-2011-3364-gnome-networkmanager-local-privilege-escalation/	[email protected]	Exploit

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
gnome ifcfg-rh plug-in	All versions
CPE cpe:2.3:a:gnome:ifcfg-rh_plug-in:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
gnome networkmanager	0.8.1 0.9.0 0.9.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:gnome:networkmanager:0.8.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gnome:networkmanager:0.9.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gnome:networkmanager:0.9.1:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 29, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2011	Initial Analysis	[email protected]