CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1658

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2008-04-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-04-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password.

Affected configurations

• freedesktop policykit (<= 0.7) • freedesktop policykit 0.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

References