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Bug 579836 - app-accessibility/brltty: Authentication bypass issue
Summary: app-accessibility/brltty: Authentication bypass issue
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B3 [upstream]
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Reported: 2016-04-13 13:10 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2016-07-19 09:58 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-04-13 13:10:38 UTC
From ${URL} :

An authentication bypass issue was found in brltty that is using polkit to control access to system resources using PID of the process connecting to the server socket.

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/59


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-07-19 09:58:55 UTC
This issue does not affect the current ebuild in the tree.  The vulnerable code was not introduced until after the 5.2 release, as discussed on the RedHat bugzilla and verified in the source tarball.