Re: CVE Request: policykit (minor)

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Kees Cook" <kees () ubuntu com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dan Rosenberg found[1] a minor information disclosure vulnerability
> in pkexec, which has been fixed[2] upstream.  It would disclose the
> existence of files a given user would normally not be able to
> confirm:
>
> $ pkexec /home/drosenbe/secret/hidden
> (password prompt)
> $ pkexec /home/drosenbe/secret/doesnotexist
> Error getting information about /home/drosenbe/secret/doesnotexist: No
> such file or directory
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Kees
>
> [1] Ubuntu bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/532852
> [2]
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=14bdfd816512a82b1ad258fa143ae5faa945df8a

Please use CVE-2010-0750

Thanks.

-- 
    JB