6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.3%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:1359
Polkit-qt is a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a
Qt-styled API. The polkit-qt library is used by the KDE Authentication
Agent (KAuth), which is a part of kdelibs.
It was found that polkit-qt handled authorization requests with PolicyKit
via a D-Bus API that is vulnerable to a race condition. A local user could
use this flaw to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations. This update
modifies polkit-qt to communicate with PolicyKit via a different API that
is not vulnerable to the race condition. (CVE-2014-5033)
All polkit-qt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-October/082833.html
Affected packages:
polkit-qt
polkit-qt-devel
polkit-qt-doc
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1359
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 7 | i686 | polkit-qt | < 0.103.0-10.el7_0 | polkit-qt-0.103.0-10.el7_0.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | polkit-qt | < 0.103.0-10.el7_0 | polkit-qt-0.103.0-10.el7_0.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | i686 | polkit-qt-devel | < 0.103.0-10.el7_0 | polkit-qt-devel-0.103.0-10.el7_0.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | polkit-qt-devel | < 0.103.0-10.el7_0 | polkit-qt-devel-0.103.0-10.el7_0.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 7 | noarch | polkit-qt-doc | < 0.103.0-10.el7_0 | polkit-qt-doc-0.103.0-10.el7_0.noarch.rpm |