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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-19788: Vulnerability in PolicyKit

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-19788: Vulnerability in PolicyKit

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/03/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/20/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-system-library-polkit-0-113-11-4-6-0-1-3-0

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