Published: 26/10/2015 Updated: 30/10/2018

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

PolicyKit (aka polkit) prior to 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."

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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 ...

CWE-264 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-3256

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