CVE-2013-1061

Name	CVE-2013-1061
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
software-properties (PTS)	buster	0.96.20.2-2	fixed
	bullseye	0.96.20.2-2.1	fixed
	sid, trixie, bookworm	0.99.30-4	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
software-properties	source	squeeze	(not affected)
software-properties	source	(unstable)	0.92.18	low

[wheezy] - software-properties <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - software-properties <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)