CVE-2008-1658

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password.

Affected products

Freedesktop Policykit: through 0.7; 0.6

References

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15295
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7
http://secunia.com/advisories/29755
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:087
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28702
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1254
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/205037
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41877
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00176.html
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15295
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7
http://secunia.com/advisories/29755

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