CVE-2013-1064 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/54914 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1955-1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.44ubuntu5.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.44ubuntu7.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.45ubuntu2.1