CVE-2013-1061 Information

Description

dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3 and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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.

Reference

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/150156695/software-properties_0.92.17.2_0.92.17.3.diff.gz http://secunia.com/advisories/54909 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1960-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87381 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.82.7.5 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.17.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.9.3