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CVE-2015-3256

Published: Oct 26, 2015 | Modified: Apr 12, 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
4.4 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3256
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Polkit Polkit_project * 0.112 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat polkit-0:0.112-6.el7_2 *
Policykit-1 Ubuntu upstream *

References

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