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Cent OS: CVE-2013-4326: CESA-2013:1282 (rtkit)

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Cent OS: CVE-2013-4326: CESA-2013:1282 (rtkit)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/03/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

RealtimeKit (aka rtkit) 0.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-rtkit

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