Security Advisory

CVE-2015-3218

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-10-26 19:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 05:39:31

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

The authentication_agent_new function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash) by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path.

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