Security Advisory

CVE-2015-4625

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-10-26 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 06:18:12
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in the authentication_agent_new_cookie function in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of a duplicate cookie value.