Access Restriction Bypass Affecting software-properties package, versions <0.92.18
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-SOFTWAREPROPERTIES-288036
- published 3 Oct 2013
- disclosed 3 Oct 2013
Introduced: 3 Oct 2013
CVE-2013-1061 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10 software-properties to version 0.92.18 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream software-properties package and not the software-properties package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.
dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1061
- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/150156695/software-properties_0.92.17.2_0.92.17.3.diff.gz
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.82.7.5
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.17.3
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.9.3
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54909
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-1061
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1960-1
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87381