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vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-0987: PackageKit: Information Disclosure in Transaction Interface via timing

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 28, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files. This issue allows a local user to measure the time the methods take to execute and know whether a file owned by root or other users exists.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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