CVE-2014-5033 | BDVDB-2026-63222 Detail
Description#
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60385
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60654
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60633
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.