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SUSE: CVE-2019-6133: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2019-6133: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/11/2019
Created
08/02/2019
Added
08/02/2019
Modified
02/04/2022

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)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-libpolkit0
  • suse-upgrade-libpolkit0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-polkit
  • suse-upgrade-polkit-devel
  • suse-upgrade-polkit-doc
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-polkit-1_0

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