debian · CVE-2025-7519

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:01:09 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2025-7519 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (policykit-1), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 3, resolved 2.

Description:

A flaw was found in polkit. When processing an XML policy with 32 or more nested elements in depth, an out-of-bounds write can be triggered. This issue can lead to a crash or other unexpected behavior, and arbitrary code execution is not discarded. To exploit this flaw, a high-privilege account is needed as it's required to place the malicious policy file properly.

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