CVE-2013-4288

Polkit (PolicyKit) contains a race condition that can allow a local user to bypass authorization by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the polkit authorization check completes. The issue centers on the PolkitUnixProcess race (including polkit_unix_process_new API usage) and is related to ...

CVE-2013-4311

CVE-2013-4311 stems from a PolkitUnixProcess race in pkcheck that can bypass access controls via a (setuid) process or pkexec, enabling local privilege bypass. Affected are libvirt components across multiple branches: libvirt 1.0.5.x (before 1.0.5.6), 0.10.2.x (before 0.10.2.8), and 0.9.12.x (bef...

CVE-2013-1066

The CVE-2013-1066 entry affects language-selector in multiple Ubuntu-derived streams (0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, 0.79.x before 0.79.4). The root cause is improper use of D-Bus for communication with Polkit, enabling a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition that local us...

CVE-2013-4327

systemd 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...

rtkit: insecure calling of polkit

RealtimeKit aka rtkit 0.5 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, a related issue to...

Race condition

The checkpermissionv1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing HPLIP through 3.13.9 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 conditio...

CVE-2013-4326

RealtimeKit aka rtkit 0.5 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, a related issue to...

CVE-2013-1062

ubuntu-system-service 0.2.4 before 0.2.4.1. 0.2.3 before 0.2.3.1, and 0.2.2 before 0.2.2.1 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...

Fedora 18 : system-config-users-1.3.1-1.fc18 (2012-17513)

This update uses pkexec instead of consolehelper/usermode. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

Fedora 18 : system-config-date-1.10.3-1.fc18 / system-config-nfs-1.4.1-1.fc18 (2012-17797)

This updates tightens policy so that only administrative users can make changes to the system as it was before using pkexec instead of consolehelper. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted ...

Scientific Linux Security Update : polkit on SL6.x i386/x86_64

A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd daemon. A local user could use this flaw to appear as a privileged user to pkexec, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands as root by running those commands with pkexec. CVE-2011-1485 The system must be rebooted for...

GLSA-201204-06 : PolicyKit: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201204-06 PolicyKit: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PolicyKit: Error messages in the pkexec utility disclose the existence of local files CVE-2010-0750. The pkexec utility initially checks the...

RedHat Update for polkit RHSA-2011:0455-01

Check for the Version of polkit OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for polkit RHSA-2011:0455-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Linux pkexec / polkitd 0.96 Race Condition

!/bin/sh pid; if stat procbuf, &statbuf != 0 gseterror error, POLKITERROR, POLKITERRORFAILED, "stat failed for /proc/%d: %s", process-pid, gstrerror errno; goto out; where the code only rely on stat of the pseudo filesystem src/polkit/polkitsubject.c --------- there's not enough validation to run...

pkexec Race Condition

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pkexec - Race Condition Privilege Escalation

pkexec - Race Condition Privilege Escalation / Exploit Title: pkexec Race condition CVE-2011-1485 exploit Author: xi4oyu Tested on: rhel 6 CVE : 2011-1485 Linux pkexec exploit by xi4oyu , thx [email protected] Have fun ¡Á U can reach us @ http://www.wooyun.org : / include include include include inclu...

pkexec - Race Condition Privilege Escalation

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pkexec Race Condition Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / Exploit Title: pkexec Race condition CVE-2011-1485 exploit Author: xi4oyu Tested on: rhel 6 CVE : 2011-1485 Linux pkexec exploit by xi4oyu , thx email protected Have fun ¡Á U can reach us @ http://www.wooyun.org : / include include include...

PolicyKit polkit-1 < 0.101 - Local Privilege Escalation

/ polkit-pwnage.c ============================== = PolicyKit Pwnage = = by zx2c4 = = Sept 2, 2011 = ============================== Howdy folks, This exploits CVE-2011-1485, a race condition in PolicyKit. davidz25 explains: --begin-- Briefly, the problem is that the UID for the parent process of...

PolicyKit polkit-1 0.101 - Local Privilege Escalation

PolicyKit polkit-1 0.101 - Local Privilege Escalation / polkit-pwnage.c ============================== = PolicyKit Pwnage = = by zx2c4 = = Sept 2, 2011 = ============================== Howdy folks, This exploits CVE-2011-1485, a race condition in PolicyKit. davidz25 explains: --begin-- Briefly, t...