Authorization Bypass

spice-gtk is vulnerable to authorization bypass. The communication to polkit for authorization via an API call is vulnerable to a race condition in setuid or pkexec process, which allows a local user to bypass access restrictions...

Privilege Escalation

polkit is vulnerable to privilege escalation. A race condition in the PolicyKit pkcheck utility when the process is specified by its process ID via the --process option, allows a local user to bypass intended authorization and escalate their privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process befor...

CVE-2018-8885

screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService.checkpermission call...

Race condition

screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService.checkpermission call...

CVE-2018-8885

screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService.checkpermission call...

Buffer overflow

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

CVE-2016-2568

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

CVE-2016-2568

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

AZL-6800 CVE-2016-2568 affecting package polkit 0.119-4

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

CVE-2016-2568

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

AZL-35109 CVE-2016-2568 affecting package polkit for versions less than 123-1

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2568

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

CVE-2016-2568

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

CVE-2016-2568

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

CVE-2016-2568

CVE-2016-2568 affects polkit (pkexec) and is triggered when pkexec is used with --user nonpriv, enabling a local attacker to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl that pushes characters into the terminal input buffer. The vulnerability is tied to PolicyKit’s handling of unprivi...

CVE-2016-2568

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer...

Red Hat PolicyKit pkexec Command Execution Vulnerability

Red Hat PolicyKit is a tool from Red Hat for privilege control of applications on Unix-compatible systems. A security vulnerability exists in the pkexec command in Red Hat PolicyKit 0.113 and earlier versions. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands with user...

openSUSE Security Update : polkit (openSUSE-2015-711)

polkit was updated to the 0.113 release, fixing security issues and bugs. Security issues fixed : - Fixes CVE-2015-4625, a local privilege escalation due to predictable authentication session cookie values. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Project Zero for reporting this issue. For the future,...

Race condition

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, related to...

CVE-2014-5033

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, related to...