cve-2015-3256
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-10-26 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 05:39
Severity ?
Summary
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."
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684
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