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
2019-01-11
Added
2019-03-13
Modified
2025-01-30

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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