SUSE CVE-2011-1485

Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit aka polkit 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID...

CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

Memory corruption

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

CVE-2015-3218

The authenticationagentnew function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path...

CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

Null pointer dereference

The authenticationagentnew function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path...

CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

CVE-2015-3218

The authenticationagentnew function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path...

CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

CVE-2015-3218

CVE-2015-3218 is a local vulnerability in PolicyKit (polkit) impacting polkit’s authentication flow. The issue resides in the authentication_agent_new function path polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c and also relates to RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path, enabl...

CVE-2015-3218

The authenticationagentnew function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path...

PT-2015-6100

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PolicyKit aka polkit versions prior to 0.113 Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and a crash of the polkitd daemon. This is achieved by calling the...

Mandriva Update for polkit MDVSA-2011:086 (polkit)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

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...