Bug 987561 (CVE-2013-4161)

Summary:	CVE-2013-4161 gksu-polkit: improper patching of CVE-2012-5617
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dan.mashal, negativo17, rcvalle, vkrizan
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Description Vincent Danen 2013-07-23 16:21:39 UTC

It was found that the patch to correct CVE-2012-5617 (bug #883162) was improperly applied, so the vulnerability described by CVE-2012-5617 was never really fixed.

As a result, gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 was reported as fixing the issue, however it did not.  Similarly, the version in Fedora 19 is still vulnerable to this flaw.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-07-23 16:23:09 UTC

Created gksu-polkit tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 987562]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-08-04 00:02:11 UTC

gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-08-04 00:07:53 UTC

gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.