Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation

No description provided by source. This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class Metasploit4 Msf::Exploit::Local Rank = GreatRanking include Msf::Exploit::EXE include Msf::Post::File include...

USN-2402-1: KDE workspace vulnerability

David Edmundson discovered that the KDE Clock KCM policykit helper did not properly guard against untrusted input. Under certain circumstances, a process running under the user's session could exploit this to run programs as the administrator...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2402-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : kde-workspace vulnerabilities (USN-2402-1)

David Edmundson discovered that the KDE Clock KCM policykit helper did not properly guard against untrusted input. Under certain circumstances, a process running under the user's session could exploit this to run programs as the administrator. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

CVE-2014-8651

The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility ntp utility name argument...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8651

The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility ntp utility name argument...

kde-workspace -- privilege escalation

David Edmundson reports: KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. This is secured with polkit. This helper takes the name of the ntp utility to run as an argument. This allows a hacker to run any arbitrary...

Linux PolicyKit - Race Condition Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class Metasploit4 'Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd...

Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation Exploit

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. Those vulnerable include RHEL6 prior to...

Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class Metasploit4 'Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd...

CentOS 7 : polkit-qt (CESA-2014:1359)

Updated polkit-qt packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

RedHat Update for polkit-qt RHSA-2014:1359-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit-qt security update

Updated polkit-qt packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation

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. Those vulnerable include RHEL6 prior to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: polkit-qt-0.112.0-1.fc20

Polkit-qt is a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a nice Qt-styled API...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: polkit-qt-0.112.0-1.fc19

Polkit-qt is a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a nice Qt-styled API...

Desktop Linux Password Stealer and Privilege Escalation

This module steals the user password of an administrative user on a desktop Linux system when it is entered for unlocking the screen or for doing administrative actions using PolicyKit. Then, it escalates to root privileges using sudo and the stolen user password. It exploits the design weakness...

Debian DSA-3004-1 : kde4libs - security update

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Kauth used Policykit insecurely by relying on the process ID. This could result in privilege escalation. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory...

DSA-3004-1 kde4libs - security update

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[SECURITY] [DSA 3004-1] kde4libs security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3004-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff August 11, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...