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HistoryFeb 17, 2016 - 1:41 a.m.

polkit security update

2016-02-1701:41:36
CentOS Project
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CVSS2

4.6

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:0189

PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations.

A denial of service flaw was found in how polkit handled authorization
requests. A local, unprivileged user could send malicious requests to
polkit, which could then cause the polkit daemon to corrupt its memory and
crash. (CVE-2015-3256)

All polkit users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct this issue. The system must be rebooted for
this update to take effect.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-February/083837.html

Affected packages:
polkit
polkit-devel
polkit-docs

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0189

CVSS2

4.6

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%