PT-2015-6100 · Polkit+3 · Policykit+3

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2015-06-09 · Updated 2018-07-18 · CVE-2015-3218

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PolicyKit (aka polkit) versions prior to 0.113

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and a crash of the polkitd daemon. This is achieved by calling the RegisterAuthenticationAgent function with an invalid object path, specifically through the authentication agent new function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.113, update to version 0.113 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1502

ALT-PU-2015-1588

CVE-2015-3218

MGASA-2015-0262

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1734-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10436-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1838-1

SUSE-SU-2015_1838-1

USN-3717-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Policykit

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 66

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4625 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06855 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1502 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3218 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0262.html · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3218 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4625 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11975 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06856 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3218 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:1838-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3256 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3255 · Vendor Advisory