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...