vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-6133): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 11, 2019
Added
Mar 13, 2019
Modified
Jan 30, 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.

Solution(s)

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