CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-4324

Published: Oct 03, 2013 | Modified: Jun 17, 2019
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.9 IMPORTANT
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Spice-gtk Spice-gtk_project 0.14 (including) 0.14 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat spice-gtk-0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 *
Spice-gtk Ubuntu precise *
Spice-gtk Ubuntu quantal *
Spice-gtk Ubuntu raring *
Spice-gtk Ubuntu saucy *

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