RHEL 7 : polkit (RHSA-2022:0272)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0272 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

RHEL 7 : polkit (RHSA-2022:0274)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0274 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

Oracle Linux 8 : polkit (ELSA-2022-0267)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-0267 advisory. 0.115-13.0.1 - Increase timeout to avoid defunct processes Orabug: 26930744 0.115-13.el85.1 - pkexec: argv overflow results in local privilege esc. - Resolves:...

RHEL 8 : polkit (RHSA-2022:0265)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0265 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

Scientific Linux Security Update : polkit on SL7.x i686/x86_64 (2022:0274)

The remote Scientific Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SLSA-2022:0274-1 advisory. - polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector CVE-2021-4034 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue b...

RHEL 7 : polkit (RHSA-2022:0273)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0273 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:0191-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Oracle Linux 7 : polkit (ELSA-2022-0274)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-0274 advisory. 0.112-26.0.1 - Increase timeout to avoid defunct processes Orabug: 26930744 0.112-26.1 - pkexec: argv overflow results in local privilege esc. - Resolves:...

RHEL 7 : polkit (RHSA-2022:0271)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0271 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

RHEL 6 : polkit (RHSA-2022:0269)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0269 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

RHEL 8 : polkit (RHSA-2022:0267)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0267 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : polkit (openSUSE-SU-2022:0190-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0190-1 advisory. - polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector CVE-2021-4034 Note that Nessus has not tested for this...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2022:0189-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0189-1 advisory. - A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed...

RHEL 8 : polkit (RHSA-2022:0266)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0266 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-4034 One day for the polkit privilege escalation expl...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security update

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...