KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-08-19T18:00:00

Updated: 2014-10-14T12:57:01

Reserved: 2014-07-22T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2014-5033

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-08-19T18:55:03.233

Modified: 2014-10-16T07:22:55.077


Link: CVE-2014-5033

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