CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-3218

2.1 LOW Published 2015-10-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-10-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The authentication_agent_new function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash) by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path.

Affected configurations

• polkit project polkit (<= 0.112)

References