RHEL 7 : polkit (RHSA-2019:2978)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2978 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork

A vulnerability was found in polkit. When authentication is performed by a non-root user to perform an administrative task, the authentication is temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining access to elevated privileges...

RHEL 7 : polkit (RHSA-2019:2699)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2699 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

polkit security and bug fix update

0.112-22.0.1 - Increase timeout to avoid defunct processes Orabug: 26930744 0.112-22 - pkttyagent: polkit-agent-helper-1 timeout leaves tty echo disabled - Resolves: rhbz1325512 0.112-21 - Mitigation of regression caused by fix of CVE-2018-19788 - Resolves: rhbz1656377 0.112-20 - Fix of...

iOS < 12.2 / macOS < 10.14.4 XNU - pidversion Increment During execve is Unsafe

Privileged IPC services in userspace often have to verify the security context of their client processes such as whether the client is sandboxed, has a specific entitlement, or is signed by some code signing authority. This, in turn, requires a way to identify a client process. If PIDs are used f...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2019-1122)

According to the version of the polkit packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork CVE-2019-6133 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

CentOS Update for polkit CESA-2019:0230 centos7

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...

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...

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";...

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

/ 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 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...

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...