Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201406-27 - A race condition in polkit could allow a local attacker to gain escalated privileges. Versions less than 3.14.1 are affected.
e25d75df9ade95871973ee8eb13ecdc5976b44c82d22212c6566220987e42d0eRed Hat Security Advisory 2013-1272-01 - The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems. libvirt invokes the PolicyKit pkcheck utility to handle authorization. A race condition was found in the way libvirt used this utility, allowing a local user to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations or execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. Note: With this update, libvirt has been rebuilt to communicate with PolicyKit via a different API that is not vulnerable to the race condition. The polkit RHSA-2013:1270 advisory must also be installed to fix the CVE-2013-4311 issue.
d92904347fa422567abf49e49fb5c4c1e4959e1c56937eff10d983ba67e44e91Ubuntu Security Notice 1954-1 - It was discovered that libvirt used the pkcheck tool in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass polkit authentication. In Ubuntu, libvirt polkit authentication is not enabled by default. It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain memory stats requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 13.04. Various other issues were also addressed.
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