Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-6133: Security patch for polkit (ALAS-2019-1171)
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
01/11/2019
05/08/2020
04/27/2020
09/30/2022
Description
In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-polkit
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-polkit-debuginfo
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-polkit-devel
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-polkit-docs
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