Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package software-properties (opens in a new tab)
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- published3 Oct 2013
- disclosed3 Oct 2013
Introduced: 3 Oct 2013
CVE-2013-1061 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:13.
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.
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