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PublicDate: 2008-04-11
Candidate: CVE-2008-1658
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1658
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: keescook

Patches_policykit:
 upstream: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=commitdiff;h=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7
upstream_policykit: pending (0.8)
dapper_policykit: DNE
edgy_policykit: DNE
feisty_policykit: DNE
gutsy_policykit: DNE
devel_policykit: released (0.7-2ubuntu6)