A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files. This issue allows a local user to measure the time the methods take to execute and know whether a file owned by root or other users exists.
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"product": "PackageKit",
"vendor": "n/a",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "All PackageKit versions"
}
]
}
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