CVE-2013-4324 — Race Condition in Spice-gtk

8 documents6 sources
Severity
4.6MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.03%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Spice-gtk Project Spice-gtkDebian Spice-gtkRedhat Enterprise Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 3
Latest updateMay 14

Description

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/spice-gtk< spice-gtk 0.21-0nocelt1 (bookworm)
▶Debianspice-gtk_project/spice-gtk< 0.21-0nocelt1+3

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 6.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-4qg9-qqgj-hw85: spice-gtk 0↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2013-4324: spice-gtk 0↗2013-10-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
spice-gtk: Insecure calling of polkit via polkit_unix_process_new()↗2013-09-18
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Debian
CVE-2013-4324: spice-gtk - spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using ...↗2013
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2013-4324 spice-gtk: Insecure calling of polkit via polkit_unix_process_new() [fedora-all]↗2013-09-18
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Bugzilla
CVE-2013-4324 spice-gtk: Insecure calling of polkit via polkit_unix_process_new()↗2013-09-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2013-4288 polkit: unix-process subject for authorization is racy↗2013-08-29
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