Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : policykit-desktop-privileges update (USN-4037-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4037-1 advisory. The policykit-desktop-privileges Startup Disk Creator policy allowed administrative users to overwrite disks. As a security improvement, this operatio...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4037-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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...

USN-4037-1 policykit-desktop-privileges update

The policykit-desktop-privileges Startup Disk Creator policy allowed administrative users to overwrite disks. As a security improvement, this operation now requires authentication...

FreeBSD : kde-workspace -- privilege escalation (dafa13a8-6e9b-11e4-8ef7-5453ed2e2b49)

David Edmundson reports : KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. This is secured with polkit. This helper takes the name of the ntp utility to run as an argument. This allows a hacker to run any arbitrary...

kde-workspace -- privilege escalation

David Edmundson reports: KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. This is secured with polkit. This helper takes the name of the ntp utility to run as an argument. This allows a hacker to run any arbitrary...