Denial of Service Vulnerability in PolicyKit's Authentication Agent Registration

CVE-2015-3218 · LOW Severity

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

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.

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