Bug 439982 (CVE-2008-1658) - CVE-2008-1658 PolicyKit: format string vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2008-1658 PolicyKit: format string vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-1658
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 439995 439996
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-01 07:47 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-24 11:22:29 UTC
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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
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