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CVE-2015-3256

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."

Affected products

• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• Polkit Project Polkit: through 0.112

References

• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77356
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684
• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0189.html

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