Access Restriction Bypass Affecting spice-gtk-tools package, versions <0:0.14-7.el6_4.3


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-SPICEGTKTOOLS-2475843
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed3 Oct 2013

Introduced: 3 Oct 2013

CVE-2013-4324  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 spice-gtk-tools to version 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2013-1273.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spice-gtk-tools package and not the spice-gtk-tools package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1