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CVE-2014-5033

Published: Aug 19, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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."

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

60385
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
RHSA-2014:1359
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
DSA-3004
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
USN-2304-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
60654
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
openSUSE-SU-2014:0981
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
60633
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA

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