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
Link Resource
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3607-1/ Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon 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

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-03-28T20:29:00.397

Modified: 2018-04-27T11:58:08.957


Link: CVE-2018-8885

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CWE