CVE-2013-4311: Race Condition

First published: Thu Oct 03 2013(Updated: )

libvirt 1.0.5.x before 1.0.5.6, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, and 0.9.12.x before 0.9.12.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition in pkcheck via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
Redhat Libvirt	=0.9.12
Redhat Libvirt	=0.10.2
Redhat Libvirt	=0.10.2.1
Redhat Libvirt	=0.10.2.2
Redhat Libvirt	=0.10.2.3
Redhat Libvirt	=0.10.2.4
Redhat Libvirt	=0.10.2.5
Redhat Libvirt	=0.10.2.6
Redhat Libvirt	=0.10.2.7
Redhat Libvirt	=1.0.5
Redhat Libvirt	=1.0.5.1
Redhat Libvirt	=1.0.5.2
Redhat Libvirt	=1.0.5.3
Redhat Libvirt	=1.0.5.4
Redhat Libvirt	=1.0.5.5
Canonical Ubuntu Linux	=10.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux	=12.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux	=12.10
Canonical Ubuntu Linux	=13.04
Redhat Enterprise Linux	=6.0

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http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases

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