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Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kde4libs  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-KDE4LIBS-331221
  • published19 Aug 2014
  • disclosed19 Aug 2014
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Introduced: 19 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-5033  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kde4libs package and not the kde4libs package as distributed by Debian.

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."