4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Colin Walters reports:
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.
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.
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.
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.”