Vulnerability in Canonical Apt-Xapian-Index
CVE-2013-1064
apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
EPSS: 0.004 (30.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Canonical Apt-xapian-index — versions 0.44ubuntu5.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)