CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4324
4.6 MEDIUM
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- 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
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.
Affected configurations
• spice-gtk project spice-gtk 0.14
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00031.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1273.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54947 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62538 www.securityfocus.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00031.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1273.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54947 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62538 www.securityfocus.com