Bug 1006680 (CVE-2013-4327)

Summary: CVE-2013-4327 systemd: insecure calling of polkit
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: lpoetter, security-response-team, zbyszek
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Bug Depends On: 1005142, 1009544    
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-11 05:45:06 UTC 
Sebastian Krahmer reported a security issue was found in polkit (CVE-2013-4288 bz 1002375).

It was found that systemd was vulnerable to this issue as well, since it communicated to polkit authority using an unsafe DBUS interface. 

This issue has been assigned CVE-2013-4327
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-11 06:00:29 UTC 
Created attachment 796254 [details]
systemd patch
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2013-09-18 15:16:44 UTC 
This is now public:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/4
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-09-18 15:28:21 UTC 
Created systemd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1009544]
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-09-21 08:38:17 UTC 
systemd-204-15.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-09-23 00:02:32 UTC 
systemd-201-2.fc18.8 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-09-23 00:20:54 UTC 
systemd-207-4.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-12-03 18:49:47 UTC 
Ooops, seems I forgot to check 'Close bugs when update is stable'.