Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
6.7
Race Condition
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

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Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
9
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INTMAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.

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Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )

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