Published: 11/04/2008 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 409

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and previous versions allows malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password.

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Debian Bug report logs - #476615 CVE-2008-1658: policykit format string vulnerability Package: policykit; Maintainer for policykit is (unknown); Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:27:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security Merged with 476616 Fixed in version policykit/08-1 Do ...

CWE-134 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15295 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/205037 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00176.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29755 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:087 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28702 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1254 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41877 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476615 https://nvd.nist.gov

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