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getcrunk on Jan 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pke...

this sounds like a bug class some type of source code scanner should be able to pick up?

loeg on Jan 25, 2022 [–]

It appears as if the maintainers are looking at Coverity at least some of the time: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_request...

I don't know if this was flagged or not.

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