vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-1116: policykit-1 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 10, 2018
Added
Feb 19, 2019
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.

Solution

debian-upgrade-policykit-1
Title
NEW

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