polkit bug fix and enhancement update

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section...

Scientific Linux Security Update : polkit on SL7.x x86_64 (20200407)

polkit: Improper authorization in polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid135828; scriptversion"1.3";...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for polkit (EulerOS-SA-2020-1424)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2020-1463)

According to the versions of the polkit package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The polkitbackendactionpoolinit function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 might all...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for polkit (EulerOS-SA-2020-1463)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2020-1424)

According to the versions of the polkit packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The authenticationagentnew function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users...

polkit security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2020:1135 An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...

polkit security and bug fix update

0.112-26.0.1 - Increase timeout to avoid defunct processes Orabug: 26930744 0.112-26 - Refined upstream fix of CVE-2018-1116 to avoid ABI changes - Related: rhbz1601411 0.112-25 - fix of CVE-2018-1116 - Resolves: rhbz1601411 0.112-24 - pkttyagent: resetting terminal erases rest of input line -...

Memory Leaks

The polkit is vulnerable memory leaks. The attack is possible because it performs an improper authorization in the polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd...

RHEL 7 : polkit (RHSA-2020:1135)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1135 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security and bug fix update

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE...

polkit: Improper authorization in polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd

It was found that Polkit's CheckAuthorization and RegisterAuthenticationAgent D-Bus calls did not validate the client provided UID. A specially crafted program could use this flaw to submit arbitrary UIDs, triggering various denial of service or minor disclosures, such as which authentication is...

CVE-2020-1712

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by...

CVE-2020-1712

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by...

Heap overflow

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by...

CVE-2020-1712

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by...

CVE-2020-1712

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by...

CVE-2020-1712

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by...

CVE-2020-1712

CVE-2020-1712 affects systemd; a heap use-after-free occurs when asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. Local unprivileged attackers can crash systemd services or potentially execute code to elevate privileges by sending crafted dbus messages. Public details acros...

SUSE-RU-2020:0793-1 Recommended update for systemd

This update for systemd fixes the following issues: - manager: fix job mode when signalled to shutdown etc bsc1161262 - remove fallback for user/exit.target - dbus method Manager.Exit does not start exit.target - do not install rescue.target for alt-↑ - %j/%J unit specifiers Added support for I/O...