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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-4625: polkit security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-4625: polkit security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/26/2015
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/19/2019

Description

Integer overflow in the authentication_agent_new_cookie function in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of a duplicate cookie value.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-polkit
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-polkit-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-polkit-docs

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