Fedora 18 : systemd-201-2.fc18.8 (2013-17203)

Fixes polkit authentication issue. 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 70300...

Fedora 20 : polkit-0.112-1.fc20 (2013-17160)

This release fixes CVE-2013-4288: Race condition with process subjects that do not have securely determined uid. pkcheck1 now supports a new format for the --process argument; all applications need to use the new format to avoid a race condition or use --system-bus-name to identify the process...

Fedora 20 : systemd-207-4.fc20 (2013-17176)

Fixes polkit authentication issue. 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 70300...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: polkit-0.107-6.fc18

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes...

Fedora 18 : polkit-0.107-6.fc18 (2013-17197)

This release fixes CVE-2013-4288: Race condition with process subjects that do not have securely determined uid. pkcheck1 now supports a new format for the --process argument; all applications need to use the new format to avoid a race condition or use --system-bus-name to identify the process...

Fedora 19 : systemd-204-15.fc19 (2013-17119)

Fixes polkit authentication issue. Updates the hardware database including keyboard mappings to the latest version from upstream. Backport a bunch of fixes from upstream. Only a few correspond to bug reports, and others correct display issues, memory access, and correctness of operation. Note tha...

Fedora 19 : polkit-0.112-1.fc19 (2013-17191)

This release fixes CVE-2013-4288: Race condition with process subjects that do not have securely determined uid. pkcheck1 now supports a new format for the --process argument; all applications need to use the new format to avoid a race condition or use --system-bus-name to identify the process...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: polkit-0.112-1.fc19

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes...

polkit security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1270 Updated polkit packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

libvirt security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1272 Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring...

CentOS 6 : polkit (CESA-2013:1270)

Updated polkit packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

RHEL 6 : hplip (RHSA-2013:1274)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1274 advisory. - hplip: Insecure calling of polkit CVE-2013-4325 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's...

Scientific Linux Security Update : polkit on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130919)

A race condition was found in the way the PolicyKit pkcheck utility checked process authorization when the process was specified by its process ID via the --process option. A local user could use this flaw to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations and escalate their privileges. CVE-2013-4288...

Oracle Linux 6 : polkit (ELSA-2013-1270)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1270 advisory. - Include fix for CVE-2013-4288 - Include fixes for CVE-2011-1485 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security...

Oracle Linux 6 : hplip (ELSA-2013-1274)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1274 advisory. 3.12.4-4:.1 - Applied patch to avoid unix-process authorization subject when using polkit as it is racy CVE-2013-4325. Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Fedora 19 : hplip-3.13.9-2.fc19 (2013-17127)

This update brings in the latest upstream release and fixes a security issue with the way polkit is used for authentication. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean an...

hplip: Insecure calling of polkit

The checkpermissionv1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing HPLIP through 3.13.9 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 conditio...

libvirt: insecure calling of polkit

libvirt 1.0.5.x before 1.0.5.6, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, and 0.9.12.x before 0.9.12.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition in pkcheck via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...

spice-gtk: Insecure calling of polkit via polkit_unix_process_new()

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkitunixprocessnew API function, 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...

polkit: unix-process subject for authorization is racy

Race condition in PolicyKit aka polkit allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to 1 the polkitunixprocessnew API function, 2 the dbus API, or 3 the --process...