polkit-qt: insecure calling of polkit

It was found that polkit-qt handled authorization requests with PolicyKit via a D-Bus API that is vulnerable to a race condition. A local user could use this flaw to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit-qt security update

Updated polkit-qt packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

polkit-qt security update

0.103.0-10 - Resolves: 1147368 CVE-2014-5033...

Fedora 19 : polkit-qt-0.112.0-1.fc19 (2014-9602)

updated to the new release of polkit-qt Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Fedora 20 : polkit-qt-0.112.0-1.fc20 (2014-9641)

updated to the new release of polkit-qt Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Fedora Update for polkit-qt FEDORA-2014-9602

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Fedora Update for polkit-qt FEDORA-2014-9641

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: polkit-qt-0.112.0-1.fc20

Polkit-qt is a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a nice Qt-styled API...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: polkit-qt-0.112.0-1.fc19

Polkit-qt is a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a nice Qt-styled API...

Race condition

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, related to...

CVE-2014-5033

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2014-5033

CVE-2014-5033 affects KDE components: kdelibs prior to 4.14 and kauth prior to 5.1, where PolicyKit is accessed via D-Bus. A local race condition in PolkitUnixProcess/PolkitSubject could allow bypassing authorization, related to PID-reuse issues (and CVE-2013-4288). Public documents show mitigati...

Updated kdelibs4 packages fix security vulnerability and various bugs

This update fixes a security vulnerability in the polkit authentication backend of kdelibs CVE-2014-5033 mga13792, and fixes some additional issues: - duplicate targets in PythonMacros.cmake reviewboard kde 111371, - kded4 leak sockets in NetworkInterface::isWireless bko324954, - media type...

MGASA-2014-0327 Updated kdelibs4 packages fix security vulnerability and various bugs

This update fixes a security vulnerability in the polkit authentication backend of kdelibs CVE-2014-5033 mga13792, and fixes some additional issues: - duplicate targets in PythonMacros.cmake reviewboard kde 111371, - kded4 leak sockets in NetworkInterface::isWireless bko324954, - media type...

openSUSE Security Update : kdelibs4 (openSUSE-SU-2014:0981-1)

KDE4 Libraries and Workspace received a security fix to fix a race condition in DBUS/Polkit authorization, where local attackers could potentially call root KDE services without proper authenticiation. CVE-2014-5033 Additionaly a interlaced GIF display bug in KHTML was fixed. kde330148 This updat...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2304-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

KDE restrictions bypass

Kauth polkit authorization check bypass...

[USN-2304-1] KDE-Libs vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2304-1 July 31, 2014 kde4libs vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : KDE-Libs vulnerability (USN-2304-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2304-1 advisory. It was discovered that kauth was using polkit in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended polkit authorizations. Tenabl...

USN-2304-1: KDE-Libs vulnerability

It was discovered that kauth was using polkit in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended polkit authorizations...