K91040959 : Polkit vulnerabilities CVE-2018-1116 and CVE-2018-19788

Security Advisory Description

• CVE-2018-1116

A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.

• CVE-2018-19788

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.

Impact

There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.