CVE-2013-1064

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 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.

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Canonical

First reported 11 years ago

2013-10-03 21:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-07-18 12:27:00

Affected Software

Canonical apt-xapian-index 0.44ubuntu5.1

0.44ubuntu5.1

Canonical apt-xapian-index 0.44ubuntu7.1

0.44ubuntu7.1

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.10

12.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 13.04

13.04

References

54914

Vendor Advisory

USN-1955-1

Vendor Advisory

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.44ubuntu5.1

Patch

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.44ubuntu7.1

Patch

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.45ubuntu2.1

Patch

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