CVE-2019-6133

In PolicyKit aka polkit 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c...

CVE-2015-3255

CVE-2015-3255 affects PolicyKit (polkit) before 0.113. The vulnerability in polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c (polkit_backend_action_pool_init) may allow local users to gain privileges via duplicate action IDs in action descriptions. Impact is local privilege escalation with partial confide...

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...