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USN-1953-1: polkit vulnerability

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USN-1953-1: polkit vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/03/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to (1) the polkit_unix_process_new API function, (2) the dbus API, or (3) the --process (unix-process) option for authorization to pkcheck.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-policykit-1

References

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