Bug 2379675 (CVE-2025-7519) - CVE-2025-7519 polkit: XML policy file with a large number of nested elements may lead to out-of-bounds write
Summary: CVE-2025-7519 polkit: XML policy file with a large number of nested elements ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-7519
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-07-11 22:00 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-14 13:17 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-11 22:00:58 UTC
When polkit is processing a XML policy with 32 or more nested elements in depth, an out-of-bounds write can be triggered. This can lead polkit to crash or other unexpected behavior and arbitrary code execution is not discarded. To explore this flaw, a high privilege account is needed as it's required to properly place the malicious policy file.


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