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	Software Inspectors   Scan Online   Personal (PSI)   Network (NSI 2.0) Solutions For   Security Professionals   Security Vendors Free Solutions For   Open Communities   Journalists & Media Secunia Advisories   Search   Historic Advisories   Listed By Product   Listed By Vendor   Statistics / Graphs   Secunia Research   Report Vulnerability   About Advisories Virus Information   Chronological List   Last 10 Virus Alerts   About Virus Information Secunia Customers   Customer Area CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1658 NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE. Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2008-1658 Description: Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password. CVE Status: Candidate References: XF   http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41877 SAID   Secunia Advisory: SA29755 MANDRIVA   http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:087 FEDORA CONFIRM   http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=commitdiff;h=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15295 BID   28702 Return to the previous page. Secunia PSI Scan | Patch | Track Free Download Secunia Poll Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network? Yes, I do it all the time Yes, but I do it rarely No See Results    Most Popular Advisories 1. Red Hat update for coreutils 2. Red Hat update for kernel 3. Red Hat update for nss_ldap 4. Red Hat update for mysql 5. Red Hat update for vsftpd 6. Red Hat update for rdesktop 7. Red Hat update for rdesktop 8. Atom PhotoBlog "photoId" SQL Injection Vulnerability 9. OpenBSD BIND Query Port DNS Cache Poisoning 10. Red Hat update for kernel
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