Vulnerability CVE-2008-1658
Published: 2008-04-11   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-134

 (Uncontrolled Format String)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Freedesktop -> Policykit 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28702
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00176.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/205037
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41877
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1254
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:087
http://secunia.com/advisories/29755
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=commitdiff;h=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15295
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