RHEL 6 : polkit (RHSA-2019:0420)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0420 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 SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20190226)

Security Fixes : - polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork CVE-2019-6133 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid122468; scriptversion"1.6";...

CentOS Update for polkit CESA-2019:0420 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security update

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 security update

0.96-11.el610.1 - Fix of CVE-2019-6133, PID reuse via slow fork - Resolves: rhbz1667310...

polkit security update

0.112-18.0.1 - Increase timeout to avoid defunct processes bug26930744 0.112-18.el76.1 - Fix of CVE-2019-6133, PID reuse via slow fork - Resolves: rhbz1667311...

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...

polkit - Temporary auth Hijacking via PID Reuse and Non-atomic Fork

polkit - Temporary auth Hijacking via PID Reuse and Non-atomic Fork / When a non-root user attempts to e.g. control systemd units in the system instance from an active session over DBus, the access is gated by a polkit policy that requires "authadminkeep" auth. This results in an auth prompt bein...

polkit - Temporary auth Hijacking via PID Reuse and Non-atomic Fork Exploit

/ When a non-root user attempts to e.g. control systemd units in the system instance from an active session over DBus, the access is gated by a polkit policy that requires "authadminkeep" auth. This results in an auth prompt being shown to the user, asking the user to confirm the action by enteri...

polkit - Temporary auth Hijacking via PID Reuse and Non-atomic Fork

/ When a non-root user attempts to e.g. control systemd units in the system instance from an active session over DBus, the access is gated by a polkit policy that requires "authadminkeep" auth. This results in an auth prompt being shown to the user, asking the user to confirm the action by enteri...

Updated KDE 4 and related packages move to KDE 4.12.5

This KDE 4 update provides an upgrade to the last stable version of KDE Applications and Development Platform for the 4.12 series, and updates Plasma Workspaces to 4.11.12. This update fixes several security vulnerabilities - KMail/KIO POP3 SSL MITM Flaw CVE-2014-3494 - mga13545 - KAuth PID Reuse...

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

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...

CVE-2014-5033: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

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...

kdelibs -- KAuth PID Reuse Flaw

Martin Sandsmark reports: The KAuth framework uses polkit-1 API which tries to authenticate using the requestors PID. This is prone to PID reuse race conditions. This potentially allows a malicious application to pose as another for authentication purposes when executing privileged actions...

CVE-2014-5033

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-2002-2254: Undefined Security Weakness

The experimental IP packet queuing feature in Netfilter / IPTables in Linux kernel 2.4 up to 2.4.19 and 2.5 up to 2.5.31, when a privileged process exits and network traffic is not being queued, may allow a later process with the same Process ID PID to access certain network traffic that would...