| Name | CVE-2013-1064 |
| Description | apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 724837 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| apt-xapian-index (PTS) | buster | 0.49 | fixed |
| bullseye | 0.52 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.53 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.55 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - apt-xapian-index <no-dsa> (Minor issue, only allows a possibly prohibited update of the Xapian package index)
[squeeze] - apt-xapian-index <no-dsa> (Minor issue, only allows a possibly prohibited update of the Xapian package index)