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CVE-2014-2886

CVE-2014-2886

EPSS 2.2%
GKSu 2.0.2, when sudo-mode is not enabled, uses " (double quote) characters in a gksu-run-helper argument, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument, as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during installation of a VirtualBox extension pack.
Affected products
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References
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40023https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/07/07/virtualbox-filename-command-execution-via-gksuhttps://launchpad.net/bugs/1186676https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-10