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

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 11, 2019
Added
Aug 2, 2019
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

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.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-libpolkit0suse-upgrade-libpolkit0-32bitsuse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-polkitsuse-upgrade-polkit-develsuse-upgrade-polkit-docsuse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-polkit-1_0

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