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Medium 5.5
Polkit: polkit: denial of service via unbounded input processing through standard input
A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the `polkit-agent-helper-1` setuid binary via standard input (stdin). This unbounded input can lead to an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, resu…
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Medium 6.7
Polkit: xml policy file with a large number of nested elements may lead to out-of-bounds write
A flaw was found in polkit. When processing an XML policy with 32 or more nested elements in depth, an out-of-bounds write can be triggered. This issue can lead to a crash or other unexpected behavior, and arbitrary code execution is not discarded. To exploit…
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High 7.8
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid too…
KEV Jun 27, 2022 -
Unscored —
pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl c…