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3 vulnerabilities found for polkit by freedesktop
FKIE_CVE-2016-2568
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-02-13 18:59 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
Summary
pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| freedesktop | polkit | * | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 6.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.0 |
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CVE-2016-2568 (GCVE-0-2016-2568)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI?
Summary
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Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
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CVE-2016-2568 (GCVE-0-2016-2568)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2017-02-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI?
Summary
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Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
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