CVE-2015-3256
polkit: Memory corruption via javascript rule evaluation
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · July 2, 2015
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
A denial of service flaw was found in how polkit handled authorization requests. A local, unprivileged user could send malicious requests to polkit, which could then cause the polkit daemon to corrupt its memory and crash.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 4.4AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE not specified