MGASA-2013-0293: hplip Mageia

Vulnerability summary

MGASA-2013-0293 is a vulnerability in hplip Mageia with no CVSS score yet.

Timeline

1. 05-10-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-04-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Updated polkit package and the packages that call polkit fixes security vulnerability A race condition was found in the way the PolicyKit pkcheck utility checked process authorization when the process was specified by its process ID via the --process option. A local user could use this flaw to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations and escalate their privileges (CVE-2013-4288). Note: Applications that invoke pkcheck with the --process option need to be modified to use the pid,pid-start-time,uid argument for that option, to allow pkcheck to check process authorization correctly. Because of the change in the PolicyKit API, the spice-gtk (CVE-2013-4324), hplip (CVE-2013-4325), rtkit (CVE-2013-4326), and systemd (CVE-2013-4327) packages have been updated to use a different API that is not affected by this PolicyKit vulnerability. The libvirt package will also be updated for the same reason, but this update will come in a separate advisory.

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