Access Restriction Bypass Affecting polkit-devel package, versions <0:0.112-6.el7_2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-POLKITDEVEL-2503838
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2015

Introduced: 26 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-3256  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 polkit-devel to version 0:0.112-6.el7_2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2016-0189.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream polkit-devel package and not the polkit-devel package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."

CVSS Base Scores

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