CVE-2015-3218 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in PolicyKit (polkit) versions prior to 0.113. A local attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference, causing the polkitd daemon to crash, by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path. This vulnerability has a low severity score (CVSS 2.1) due to its local attack vector and only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.112CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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