CVE-2011-2709

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Umich Libgssapi: through 0.3; 0.1, 0.2
Umich Libgssglue: through 0.3; 0.1, 0.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082072.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082297.html
http://lwn.net/Alerts/449415/
http://secunia.com/advisories/45075
http://secunia.com/advisories/50785
http://secunia.com/advisories/50973
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/libgssglue/libgssglue-0.4.tar.gz
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/21/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/12/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48490
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694598

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