CVE-2013-4324 Information

Description

spice-gtk 0.14 and possibly other versions invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00031.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1273.html http://secunia.com/advisories/54947 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62538