CVE-2015-3256 — Out-of-bounds Write in Project Polkit

CWE-2646 documents6 sources
Severity
4.6MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 76.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Polkit Project PolkitOpensuse
Timeline
PublishedOct 26
Latest updateMay 14

Description

PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDopensuse/opensuse13.1, 13.2+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-779g-mjcq-vffm: PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2015-3256: PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0↗2015-10-26
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
polkit: Memory corruption via javascript rule evaluation↗2015-07-02
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Debian
CVE-2015-3256: policykit-1 - PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of serv...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3256 polkit: Memory corruption via javascript rule evaluation↗2015-07-22
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CVE-2015-3256 — Out-of-bounds Write in Project Polkit | cvebase