CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4311
4.6 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-10-03
- 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-264
Description
libvirt 1.0.5.x before 1.0.5.6, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, and 0.9.12.x before 0.9.12.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition in pkcheck via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
Affected configurations
• redhat libvirt 0.9.12
• redhat libvirt 0.10.2
• redhat libvirt 0.10.2.1
• redhat libvirt 0.10.2.2
• redhat libvirt 0.10.2.3
• redhat libvirt 0.10.2.4
• redhat libvirt 0.10.2.5
• redhat libvirt 0.10.2.6
• redhat libvirt 0.10.2.7
• redhat libvirt 1.0.5
• redhat libvirt 1.0.5.1
• redhat libvirt 1.0.5.2
• redhat libvirt 1.0.5.3
• redhat libvirt 1.0.5.4
• redhat libvirt 1.0.5.5
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 13.04
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00023.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00024.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1272.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1954-1 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00023.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00024.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1272.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1954-1 Vendor Advisory