Bug 600455 – CVE-2010-4664 ConsoleKit: Policy restrictions break-out via remote Virtual Network Computing (VNC) session

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Bug 600455 - (CVE-2010-4664) CVE-2010-4664 ConsoleKit: Policy restrictions break-out via remote Virtual Network Computing (VNC) session

Summary:	CVE-2010-4664 ConsoleKit: Policy restrictions break-out via remote Virtual Ne...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2010-4664

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	585952
Blocks:	712420
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Reported:	2010-06-04 14:20 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2018-01-29 20:00 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-06-04 14:20:59 EDT

An intended security policy restriction bypass was found in the way ConsoleKit 
identified VNC sessions originating from remote host. A valid, authenticated
system user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges (become
member of more privileged policy group) by initiating a remote VNC session.

Upstream bug report:
  [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28377

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-06-04 14:22:48 EDT

This issue affects the versions of the ConsoleKit package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 11, 12, and 13.

This issue affects the version of the ConsoleKit package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2011-04-07 13:05:00 EDT

This is public via the upstream bug. I'm opening this up.

I've assigned this bug CVE-2010-4664

Comment 5 Stefan Cornelius 2013-03-15 09:00:58 EDT

Statement:

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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