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CVE-2013-4326

Published: Oct 03, 2013 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
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
Vulnerability-free packages from our partners
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4326
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

RealtimeKit (aka rtkit) 0.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, 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
Rkit Lennart_poettering 0.5 (including) 0.5 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat rtkit-0:0.5-2.el6_4 *
Rtkit Ubuntu devel *
Rtkit Ubuntu lucid *
Rtkit Ubuntu precise *
Rtkit Ubuntu quantal *
Rtkit Ubuntu raring *

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