ubuntu · CVE-2014-5033

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Priority: medium Published: 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2014-5033 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kde4libs), 4 status rows across 4 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream): released 2, ignored 1, needed 1.

Description:

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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