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Red Hat: CVE-2018-19788: Moderate: polkit security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-19788: Moderate: polkit security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/03/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-polkit
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-docs

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