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Policykit is made by Freedesktop. We track 2 published vulnerabilities in it, across 2 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Policykit, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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- 0.7%CVE-2008-1658Medium
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...
- 0.5%
pkexec.c in pkexec in libpolkit in PolicyKit 0.96 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via the argument.
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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.
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We track 2 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Policykit, across 2 versions.
None of Policykit's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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