| Name | CVE-2015-3256 |
| Description | PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation." |
| 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 |
|---|
| policykit-1 (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 0.105-25+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 0.105-31+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 122-3 | fixed |
| trixie | 124-1 | fixed |
| sid | 124-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| policykit-1 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- policykit-1 <not-affected> (The Policykit versions which rely on Javascript/Spidermonkey haven't been uploaded to unstable)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69501
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910262#c75