Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package spice-gtk  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-SPICEGTK-635775
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed3 Oct 2013

Introduced: 3 Oct 2013

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spice-gtk package and not the spice-gtk package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.