USN-5304-1: PolicyKit vulnerability

Kevin Backhouse discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled file descriptors. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PolicyKit to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-5304-1 policykit-1 vulnerability

Kevin Backhouse discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled file descriptors. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PolicyKit to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : PolicyKit vulnerability (USN-5304-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5304-1 advisory. Kevin Backhouse discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled file descriptors. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PolicyKit to crash,...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

policykit-1:sid is vulnerable to denial of service. Lack of proper handling of call returns causes the process file descriptor exhaustion...

Debian DLA-2899-1 : policykit-1 - LTS security update

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2899 advisory. The Qualys Research Labs discovered a local privilege escalation in PolicyKit's pkexec. Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at...

Debian DSA-5059-1 : policykit-1 - security update

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5059 advisory. - A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run...

PolicyKit-1 0.105-31 - Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit Title: PolicyKit-1 0.105-31 - Privilege Escalation Exploit Author: Lance Biggerstaff Original Author: ryaagard https://github.com/ryaagard Github Repo: https://github.com/ryaagard/CVE-2021-4034 References: https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt Description: The exploit...

PolicyKit-1 0.105-31 Privilege Escalation

Exploit Title: PolicyKit-1 0.105-31 - Privilege Escalation Exploit Author: Lance Biggerstaff Original Author: ryaagard https://github.com/ryaagard Date: 27-01-2022 Github Repo: https://github.com/ryaagard/CVE-2021-4034 References: https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt...

PolicyKit-1 0.105-31 - Privilege Escalation

Exploit Title: PolicyKit-1 0.105-31 - Privilege Escalation Exploit Author: Lance Biggerstaff Original Author: ryaagard https://github.com/ryaagard Date: 27-01-2022 Github Repo: https://github.com/ryaagard/CVE-2021-4034 References: https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt...

Privilege Escalation

policykit is vulnerable to privilege escalation.The vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to gain root privileges on the vulnerable host...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : PolicyKit vulnerability (USN-5252-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5252-1 advisory. It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue to escalate...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : PolicyKit vulnerability (USN-5252-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5252-2 advisory. USN-5252-1 fixed a vulnerability in policykit-1. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted th...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5059-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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: Security Advisory (USN-5252-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

USN-5252-2: PolicyKit vulnerability

USN-5252-1 fixed a vulnerability in policykit-1. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue t...

USN-5252-2 policykit-1 vulnerability

USN-5252-1 fixed a vulnerability in policykit-1. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue t...

USN-5252-1 policykit-1 vulnerability

It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue to escalate privileges to an administrator...

USN-5252-1: PolicyKit vulnerability

It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue to escalate privileges to an administrator...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2899-1] policykit-1 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2899-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso January 25, 2022 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 5059-1] policykit-1 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5059-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso January 25, 2022 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...