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CVE-2018-8885
Published: Mar 28, 2018
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService._check_permission call.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
USN-3607-1
vendor-advisory
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