Vulnerabilites related to freedesktop - policykit
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2010-04-06 16:30
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
pkexec.c in pkexec in libpolkit in PolicyKit 0.96 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via the argument.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| freedesktop | policykit | 0.96 |
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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-04-11 10:05
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| freedesktop | policykit | * | |
| freedesktop | policykit | 0.6 |
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CVE-2010-0750 (GCVE-0-2010-0750)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-04-06 16:00
Modified
2024-08-07 00:59
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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CVE-2008-1658 (GCVE-0-2008-1658)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-04-11 10:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:32
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password.
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