ALSA-2026:65832 Important: mrtg security update

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network connections. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic. Security Fixes: mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID...

Fedora 43 : mrtg (2026-4522f50b2c)

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-4522f50b2c advisory. Fix CVE-2026-72694: symlink-following privilege escalation in PID file handling Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

Fedora 44 : mrtg (2026-d05b77001f)

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-d05b77001f advisory. Fix CVE-2026-72694: symlink-following privilege escalation in PID file handling Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

SUSE CVE-2026-72178

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids damoncommittarget puts and gets the destination and the source target pids. It puts the destination target pid because it will be overwritten by the source target pid...

SUSE CVE-2026-78422

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

CVE-2026-78422

A flaw was found in zbuspolkit. The Subject::newforowner function incorrectly encodes the user ID UID as an unsigned 32-bit integer instead of a signed 32-bit integer when communicating with the PolicyKit polkit authorization framework. This type mismatch causes polkit to disregard the provided U...

CVE-2026-78422

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

CVE-2026-78422

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

CVE-2026-78422 zbus_polkit: polkit authorization bypass via PID reuse due to incorrect D-Bus type for the subject UID

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

CVE-2026-78422 zbus_polkit: polkit authorization bypass via PID reuse due to incorrect D-Bus type for the subject UID

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

CVE-2026-78422

CVE-2026-78422 affects the zbus_polkit Rust crate (before 5.1.0 ). The function Subject::new_for_owner() encodes the UID of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer (D-Bus type u), while the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface expects a signed 32-bit integer (type i)...

EUVD-2026-68593

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

CVE-2026-78422 zbus_polkit: polkit authorization bypass via PID reuse due to incorrect D-Bus type for the subject UID

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

SUSE CVE-2026-72127

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netdev-genl: report NAPI thread PID in the caller's pid namespace netdevnlnapifillone reports the NAPI kthread PID in NETDEVANAPIPID using taskpidnr, which returns the PID in the initial pid namespace. NETDEVCMDNAPIGET does not...

`zbus_polkit`: authorization bypass via PID reuse

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

RUSTSEC-2026-0278 `zbus_polkit`: authorization bypass via PID reuse

Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit silently...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-78422

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Subject::newforowner in the zbuspolkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the...

PT-2026-83844

Subject::new for owner in the zbus polkit crate encodes the uid entry of a unix-process polkit subject as an unsigned 32-bit integer D-Bus type u, whereas the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority interface specifies a signed 32-bit integer D-Bus type i. Because of this type mismatch, polkit...

Important: mrtg

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the...

Amazon Linux 2 : mrtg, --advisory ALAS2-2026-3884 (ALAS-2026-3884)

The version of mrtg installed on the remote host is prior to 2.17.4-11. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2026-3884 advisory. A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged...