CVE-2013-1065

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

backend.py in Jockey before 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 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.

backend.py in Jockey before 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 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

First reported 11 years ago

2013-10-03 21:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-10-04 16:59:00

Affected Software

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7

0.9.7-0ubuntu7

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.1

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.1

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.2

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.2

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.3

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.3

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.4

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.4

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.5

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.5

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.6

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.6

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.7

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.7

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.8

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.8

Martin Pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.9

0.9.7-0ubuntu7.9

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

12.04

References

54912

Vendor Advisory

USN-1957-1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11

Patch

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