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."
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Information
Published : 2014-08-19 11:55
Updated : 2014-10-16 00:22
NVD link : CVE-2014-5033
Mitre link : CVE-2014-5033
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CWE
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Products Affected
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
kde
- kdelibs
- kauth
debian
- kde4libs