CVE-2013-4311 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4311?

CVE-2013-4311 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

libvirt 1.0.5.x before 1.0.5.6, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, and 0.9.12.x before 0.9.12.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition in pkcheck 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-2013-4311?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Libvirt.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4311?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2013-4311 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4311 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4311, GHSA-pr6p-rw96-x62r.