PT-2012-5394 · Gnome · Gnome Shell

Tavis · Published 2012-10-01 · Updated 2012-10-02 · CVE-2012-4427

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNOME gnome-shell plugin version 3.4.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to force the download and installation of arbitrary extensions from extensions.gnome.org via a crafted web page.

Recommendations For version 3.4.1, consider disabling the extension installation feature from extensions.gnome.org until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4427

Affected Products

Gnome Shell

References · 11

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779473 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/08/1 · Exploit
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684215 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4427 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4427 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4427 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4427 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/26 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/55556 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/18/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/19 · Note