{"id":"CVE-2015-3218","details":"The authentication_agent_new function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash) by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path.","modified":"2026-04-16T06:20:15.797463813Z","published":"2015-10-26T19:59:00Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2015:1838-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10436-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161721.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162294.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000420.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000421.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76086"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-1/"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}