Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-2709: libgssglue: Privilege escalation
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06/21/2012
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
10/30/2017
Description
libgssapi and libgssglue before 0.4 do not properly check privileges, which allows local users to load untrusted configuration files and execute arbitrary code via the GSSAPI_MECH_CONF environment variable, as demonstrated using mount.nfs.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-libgssglue
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