CVE-2013-1063 Information

Description

usb-creator 0.2.47 before 0.2.47.1 0.2.40 before 0.2.40ubuntu2 and 0.2.38 before 0.2.38.2 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://secunia.com/advisories/54901 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1963-1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.38.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.40ubuntu2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.47.1