CVE-2013-1063: Race Condition
First published: Thu Oct 03 2013(Updated: )
usb-creator 0.2.47 before 0.2.47.1, 0.2.40 before 0.2.40ubuntu2, and 0.2.38 before 0.2.38.2 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.
Credit: security@ubuntu.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | =12.04 | |
| Ubuntu | =12.10 | |
| Ubuntu | =13.10 | |
| usb-creator project usb-creator | =0.2.38 | |
| usb-creator project usb-creator | =0.2.38.1 | |
| usb-creator project usb-creator | =0.2.40 | |
| usb-creator project usb-creator | =0.2.47 |
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