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HistoryOct 06, 2014 - 6:04 p.m.

polkit security update

2014-10-0618:04:24
CentOS Project
lists.centos.org
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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

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%