screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService._check_permission call.
References
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/3607-1/ | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-03-28T20:00:00
Updated: 2018-03-28T19:57:01
Reserved: 2018-03-21T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-8885
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-03-28T20:29:00.397
Modified: 2018-04-27T11:58:08.957
Link: CVE-2018-8885
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE