CVE-2011-1709

Public PoC / Exploit

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.32.2, when glib 2.28 is used, enables execution of a web browser with the uid of the gdm account, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving the x-scheme-handler/http MIME type.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

Affected Products (30)

gnome · gdmvulnerable

gnome · glib

References (18)

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.2.news

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=d13dd72531599ab7e4c747db3b58a8c17753e08d

Patch

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061264.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/44797

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/44808

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48084

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1142-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709139

Patch

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8643655

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.2.news

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=d13dd72531599ab7e4c747db3b58a8c17753e08d

Patch

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061264.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/44797

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/44808

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48084

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1142-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709139

Patch

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8643655