Bug 1006669 (CVE-2013-4324) - CVE-2013-4324 spice-gtk: Insecure calling of polkit via polkit_unix_process_new()
Summary: CVE-2013-4324 spice-gtk: Insecure calling of polkit via polkit_unix_process_n...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-4324
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1005137 1006786 1006787 1009540
Blocks: 1002376
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-11 05:28 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-10-20 10:41 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-10-20 10:41:34 UTC
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spice-gtk patch (1.54 KB, patch)
2013-09-11 06:01 UTC, Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1273 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: spice-gtk security update 2013-09-19 22:02:05 UTC

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.
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