Vulnerability CVE-2015-3256
Published: 2015-10-26

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."

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

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
Polkit project -> Polkit 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 

 References:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684
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