CVE-2015-3218

Description

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.

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3