Bug 439982 (CVE-2008-1658)

Summary:	CVE-2008-1658 PolicyKit: format string vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	davidz, k.georgiou
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Bug Depends On:	439995, 439996
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-04-01 07:47:11 UTC

Format string vulnerability was discovered in the PolicyKit grant helper.  User
may specify password with formatting sequences and cause polkit-grant-helper to
crash or bypass authentication.

Upstream bug report with proposed patch:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15295

Original report in Ubuntu BTS:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/205037

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-04-04 07:05:40 UTC

PolicyKit-0.6-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-04-09 05:19:12 UTC

PolicyKit-0.6-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Red Hat Product Security 2008-04-24 11:22:29 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2987