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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201611-07">
<title>polkit: Heap-corruption on duplicate IDs </title>
<synopsis>polkit is vulnerable to local privilege escalation.</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">polkit</product>
<announced>2016-11-15</announced>
<revised>2016-11-15: 1</revised>
<bug>555666</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-auth/polkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.113</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.113</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged
processes communicating with privileged processes.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A vulnerability was discovered in polkit’s
polkit_backend_action_pool_init function due to duplicate action IDs in
action descriptions.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>Local attackers are able to gain unauthorized privileges on the system.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/polkit-0.113"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3255">CVE-2015-3255</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-12-25T00:47:50Z">
BlueKnight
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-11-15T07:23:23Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>
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