oss-security - Re: CVE Request: policykit (minor)

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Message-ID: <1677914590.229811270149964194.JavaMail.root@zmail01.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:26:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: policykit (minor)

----- "Kees Cook" <kees@...ntu.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Dan Rosenberg found[1] a minor information disclosure vulnerability
> in pkexec, which has been fixed[2] upstream.  It would disclose the
> existence of files a given user would normally not be able to
> confirm:
> 
> $ pkexec /home/drosenbe/secret/hidden
> (password prompt)
> $ pkexec /home/drosenbe/secret/doesnotexist
> Error getting information about /home/drosenbe/secret/doesnotexist: No
> such file or directory
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Kees
> 
> [1] Ubuntu bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/532852
> [2]
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=14bdfd816512a82b1ad258fa143ae5faa945df8a
> 

Please use CVE-2010-0750

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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