Important: polkit

Issue Overview:

A vulnerability was found in polkit. When authentication is performed by a non-root user to perform an administrative task, the authentication is temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining access to elevated privileges.(CVE-2019-6133)

Affected Packages:

polkit

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update polkit to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    polkit-0.112-18.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    polkit-devel-0.112-18.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.amzn2.1.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    polkit-0.112-18.amzn2.1.i686  
    polkit-devel-0.112-18.amzn2.1.i686  
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.amzn2.1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    polkit-docs-0.112-18.amzn2.1.noarch  
  
src:  
    polkit-0.112-18.amzn2.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    polkit-0.112-18.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    polkit-devel-0.112-18.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.amzn2.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2019-6133

Mitre: CVE-2019-6133