{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2015-05-29T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "polkit: crash authentication_agent_new with invalid object path in RegisterAuthenticationAgent",
    "id" : "1228738",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228738"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "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.", "A NULL-pointer dereference flaw was discovered in polkitd. A malicious, local user could exploit this flaw to crash polkitd." ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "polkit",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "polkit",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3218\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3218" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2015-3218",
  "csaw" : false
}