CVE-2013-4161

Summary

CVECVE-2013-4161
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-12-31 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-02 13:35:00 UTC
Descriptiongksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 was reported as fixing the issue in CVE-2012-5617 but the patch was improperly applied and it did not fixed the security issue.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 18 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 19 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 18 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 19 All All All
Application Gksu-polkit Project Gksu-polkit 0.0.3 All All All
Application Linux-aarhus Gksu-polkit 0.0.3 All All All
Application Linux-aarhus Gksu-polkit 0.0.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2013-4161 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Broken Link
987561 – (CVE-2013-4161) CVE-2013-4161 gksu-polkit: improper patching of CVE-2012-5617 MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc18 MISC lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc19 MISC lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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