CVE-2013-4324 Race condition in n/a
Medium 4.6
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-4324 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2013-4324 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 3 Oct 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4324 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Redhat Enterprise Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4324/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4324/index.md)
Local attackers can exploit a race condition in spice-gtk's polkit integration to bypass access restrictions and escalate privileges.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-4324?
CVE-2013-4324 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise 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
spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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-2013-4324?
It affects 2 products.
Linux distribution packages (28)
spice-glib Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-glib-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-glib Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-glib-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-glib Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-glib-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-glib Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-glib-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
spice-gtk-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:0.14-7.el6_4.3 |
Products include Redhat Enterprise Linux, Spice-Gtk Project Spice-Gtk.
How do I fix CVE-2013-4324?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2013-4324 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4324 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4324, GHSA-4qg9-qqgj-hw85, RHSA-2013:1273.