CVE-2015-3256

Publication date 26 October 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

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."

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
policykit-1 15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

likely need all the commits between 2015-06-18 and 2015-06-19 plus 2015-06-23 to address issues note that this only affected policykit versions that used javscript via libmozjs, which none of the ubuntu versions do

Patch details

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Package Patch details
policykit-1