Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

[Matthias Schmidt <oss-sec () xosc org>]

Hi,

* Qualys Security Advisory wrote:
> Qualys Security Advisory
>
> pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

This was already mentioned in 2013 in a blog post, however, it seems the
author didn't realize the consequences of their finding:

https://ryiron.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/argv-silliness/

Cheers

        Matthias