Medium: polkit

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.(CVE-2018-19788)

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-0.112-22.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    polkit-devel-0.112-22.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-22.amzn2.1.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    polkit-0.112-22.amzn2.1.i686  
    polkit-devel-0.112-22.amzn2.1.i686  
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-22.amzn2.1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    polkit-docs-0.112-22.amzn2.1.noarch  
  
src:  
    polkit-0.112-22.amzn2.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    polkit-0.112-22.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    polkit-devel-0.112-22.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-22.amzn2.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-19788

Mitre: CVE-2018-19788