CVE-2015-3218

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The authentication_agent_new function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) bef

The authentication_agent_new function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash) by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path.

LOW · CVSS 2.1 EPSS 0.00133

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No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence

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Affected Products & Versions

polkit project polkit<= 0.112

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2.1

LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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v2 Vector

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

Published to NVD26 Oct 2015 · 07:59 PM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10436-1
usnUSN-3717-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1838-1

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161721.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162294.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000420.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000421.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html

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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76086

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-1/

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