Local User Denial of Service Vulnerability in PolicyKit by Red Hat
CVE-2015-3256

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Key Information:

Vendor: Polkit Project
Status: Polkit
Vendor: CVE Published:; 26 October 2015

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What is CVE-2015-3256?

A vulnerability in PolicyKit allows local users to exploit unspecified vectors to cause a denial of service through memory corruption, which may lead to the crash of the polkitd daemon and potentially enable the attacker to gain elevated privileges.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684

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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356

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Timeline

Vulnerability published
Oct 26, 2015
Vulnerability Reserved
Apr 10, 2015