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Debian: CVE-2019-6133: linux, policykit-1 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-6133: linux, policykit-1 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/11/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/14/2019
Modified
08/07/2020

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)

  • debian-upgrade-linux
  • debian-upgrade-policykit-1

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