Bug 1006669 (CVE-2013-4324)

Summary: CVE-2013-4324 spice-gtk: Insecure calling of polkit via polkit_unix_process_new()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1005137, 1006786, 1006787, 1009540    
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-11 05:28:14 UTC 
Sebastian Krahmer reported a security issue was found in polkit (CVE-2013-4288 bz 1002375).

It was found that spice-gtk was vulnerable to this issue as well, since it communicated to polkit authority using the unsafe polkit_unix_process_new() interface. Consequently polkit has now deprecated the use of polkit_unix_process_new() and spice-gtk has been patched to use the safer (already existing) polkit_unix_process_new_for_owner() interface.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2013-4324.
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-11 06:01:50 UTC 
Created attachment 796257 [details]
spice-gtk patch
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-09-18 15:12:43 UTC 
This is now public:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/4
Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2013-09-18 15:26:08 UTC 
Created spice-gtk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1009540]
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-09-19 18:07:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1273 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1273.html
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-09-27 00:45:18 UTC 
spice-gtk-0.20-6.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.