CVE-2015-3256 Information

Description

PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to \javascript rule evaluation.\

Reference

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684