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Security ERRATA Moderate: NetworkManager on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:03:13 -0500
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Synopsis:    Moderate: NetworkManager security update

Issue Date:  2011-09-26

CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-3364

NetworkManager is a network link manager that attempts to keep a wired or

wireless network connection active at all times. The ifcfg-rh

NetworkManager plug-in is used in Scientific Linux distributions to

read and write configuration information from the

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files.

An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the ifcfg-rh NetworkManager

plug-in escaped network connection names containing special characters. If

PolicyKit was configured to allow local, unprivileged users to create and

save new network connections, they could create a connection with a

specially-crafted name, leading to the escalation of their privileges.

Note: By default, PolicyKit prevents unprivileged users from creating and

saving network connections. (CVE-2011-3364)

Users of NetworkManager should upgrade to these updated packages, which

contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Running instances of

NetworkManager must be restarted ("service NetworkManager restart") for

this update to take effect.

SL6:

   i386

      NetworkManager-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-glib-devel-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-glib-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-devel-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

   x86_64

      NetworkManager-glib-devel-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.x86_64.rpm

      NetworkManager-glib-devel-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-glib-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.x86_64.rpm

      NetworkManager-glib-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-devel-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.x86_64.rpm

      NetworkManager-devel-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.x86_64.rpm

      NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.i686.rpm

      NetworkManager-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.x86_64.rpm

      NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-9.el6_1.3.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team

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