Improper D-Bus Communication in Software Properties 0.92.17 and earlier

Improper D-Bus Communication in Software Properties 0.92.17 and earlier

CVE-2013-1061 · MEDIUM Severity

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

dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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.

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