Memory Corruption and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in PolicyKit (polkit) 0.113 and Earlier

Memory Corruption and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in PolicyKit (polkit) 0.113 and Earlier

CVE-2015-3256 · MEDIUM Severity

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

PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 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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