CVE-2015-3218 Affecting policykit-1 package, versions <0.105-11


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-POLICYKIT1-318659
  • published26 Oct 2015
  • disclosed26 Oct 2015

Introduced: 26 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-3218  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 policykit-1 to version 0.105-11 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream policykit-1 package and not the policykit-1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The authentication_agent_new function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash) by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path.

CVSS Scores

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