CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-4625
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-189
Description
Integer overflow in the authentication_agent_new_cookie function in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of a duplicate cookie value.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 21
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• polkit project polkit (<= 0.112)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161721.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162294.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html lists.freedesktop.org
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-June/000427.html lists.freedesktop.org
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000419.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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/08/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/21 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75267 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 www.securitytracker.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161721.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162294.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html lists.freedesktop.org
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-June/000427.html lists.freedesktop.org
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000419.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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/08/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/21 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75267 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 www.securitytracker.com