CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3255
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-10-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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
The polkit_backend_action_pool_init function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 might allow local users to gain privileges via duplicate action IDs in action descriptions.
Affected configurations
• polkit project polkit (<= 0.112)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html lists.freedesktop.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83590 bugs.freedesktop.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245673 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html lists.freedesktop.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83590 bugs.freedesktop.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245673 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/ usn.ubuntu.com