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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-19788: polkit security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-19788: polkit security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/03/2018
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
10/31/2019

Description

A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-polkit
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-polkit-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-polkit-docs

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