polkit: Privilege escalation

Background

polkit is a toolkit for managing policies related to unprivileged processes communicating with privileged process.

Description

The function polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() was called without checking for error, and as such temporarily treats the authentication request as coming from root.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/polkit-0.119"