CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3256
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
PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."
Affected configurations
• polkit project polkit (<= 0.112)
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684 bugzilla.redhat.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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684 bugzilla.redhat.com