cve-2025-7519
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-14 13:35
Modified
2025-07-25 17:55
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Polkit: xml policy file with a large number of nested elements may lead to out-of-bounds write
References
Impacted products
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