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packagekit — security advisory
A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files. This issue allows a local user to measure the time the methods take to execute and know whether a file owned by root or other users exists.
- Products
- packagekit
- Affected versions
- 1.2.6-5, 1.2.6-5+deb12u1, 1.2.7-1, 1.2.8-1, 1.2.8-2, 1.3.0-1, 1.3.0-2, 1.3.0-3, 1.3.1-1, 1.3.1-1+deb13u1, 1.3.2-1, 1.3.3-1, 1.3.4-1, 1.3.4-3, 1.3.5-1, 1.3.6-1, 1.4.0-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-0987
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files. This issue allows a local user to measure the time the methods take to execute and know whether a file owned by root or other users exists.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0987
packagekit
Fixed versions: Not specified
packagekit
Fixed versions: Not specified
packagekit
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-09T10:00:32.489681748Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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