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Freedesktop Spice-gtklibgio, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in spice-gtk and possibly other products, a…

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AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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 CVE-2012-3524

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CVE-2012-4425

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