cve/2015/CVE-2015-3256.md

CVE-2015-3256

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."

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/RedHatSatellite/satellite-host-cve