A denial of service flaw was found in how polkit handled authorization requests. A local, unprivileged user could send malicious requests to polkit, which could then cause the polkit daemon to corrupt its memory and crash.
Find out more about CVE-2015-3256 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 4.4 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (polkit) | RHSA-2016:0189 | 2016-02-16 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | polkit | Not affected |
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