CVE-2013-1061 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1061?

CVE-2013-1061 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Oct 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1061?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Marc Deslauriers Software-Properties.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1061?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2013-1061 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1061 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1061, GHSA-f8vv-fqj4-phcp.