CVE-2012-4425
First published: Fri Sep 14 2012(Updated: )
It was discovered that the spice-gtk setuid helper application, spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper, did not clear the environment variables read by the libraries it uses. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges by setting specific environment variables before running the helper application. This flaw is similar to <a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3524">CVE-2012-3524</a>
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Freedesktop Spice-gtk | ||
| Gtk Libgio |
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Reference Links
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.extras.cvs/853051
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1284.html
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21323
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/12/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/14/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/17/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55555
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/spice-devel/msg01940.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857283
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3524
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=857228
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/470
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=857227
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1284.html
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/commit/?id=efbf867bb88845d5edf839550b54494b1bb752b9
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