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CVE-2014-5033

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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."

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/19/2014

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxdebian:kde4libskde:kauthkde:kdelibs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a(cve@mitre.org)

http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23(cve@mitre.org)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60385(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60633(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60654(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60385(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60633(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60654(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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