Bug 717672 (CVE-2011-2504) - CVE-2011-2504 x11perfcomp has dot in its path
Summary: CVE-2011-2504 x11perfcomp has dot in its path
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-2504
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 856481
Blocks: 855229
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-29 14:37 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2021-02-24 15:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-03-06 11:57:03 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0502 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: Core X11 clients security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2013-02-20 21:18:12 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2011-06-29 14:37:31 UTC 
Xorg upstream alerted us to an issue in the x11perfcomp script. The script
places a '.' in the PATH environment variable which could result in an
attacker being able to execute arbitrary code if a user runs x11perfcomp
from an attacker controlled directory.
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 08:15:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0502 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0502.html
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-02-22 04:13:15 UTC 
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