CentOS ProjectCESA-2019:0230polkit security update
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
33.0%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:0230
The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones.
Security Fix(es):
- polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork (CVE-2019-6133)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Jan Rybar (freedesktop.org) for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) as the original reporter.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/085433.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-April/098187.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-March/085377.html
Affected packages:
polkit
polkit-devel
polkit-docs
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | 7 | i686 | polkit | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.1.i686.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | polkit | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | i686 | polkit-devel | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.1.i686.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | polkit-devel | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | noarch | polkit-docs | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-docs-0.112-18.el7_6.1.noarch.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | i686 | polkit | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.1.i686.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | polkit | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | i686 | polkit-devel | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.1.i686.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | x86_64 | polkit-devel | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm |
| CentOS | 7 | noarch | polkit-docs | < 0.112-18.el7_6.1 | polkit-docs-0.112-18.el7_6.1.noarch.rpm |
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
33.0%