CVE-2022-0987 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package packagekit (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published27 Apr 2026
- disclosed28 Jun 2022
Introduced: 28 Jun 2022
CVE-2022-0987 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream packagekit package and not the packagekit package as distributed by Ubuntu.
A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files. This issue allows a local user to measure the time the methods take to execute and know whether a file owned by root or other users exists.