Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2026-0085)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: polkit-127-2.fc44.2

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

Photon OS 5.0: Polkit PHSA-2025-5.0-0673

An update of the polkit package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2025-5.0-0673. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2025:02525-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 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...

polkit bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for polkit. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.5...

SUSE-SU-2024:0010-1 Security update for polkit

This update for polkit fixes the following issues: - Change permissions for rules folders bsc1209282...

polkit security update

0.115-13.0.1.el85.2 - Increase timeout to avoid defunct processes Orabug: 26930744 0.115-13.el85.2 - necessary version bump due to build versioning - Resolves: CVE-2021-4115...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: polkit-0.120-1.fc35.2

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

OPENSUSE-SU-2022:0525-1 Security update for polkit

This update for polkit fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-4115: Fixed a denial of service via file descriptor leak bsc1195542...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: polkit-0.117-3.fc34.2

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

SUSE-SU-2022:0191-1 Security update for polkit

This update for polkit fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-4034: Fixed a local privilege escalation in pkexec bsc1194568...

SUSE-SU-2022:0190-1 Security update for polkit

This update for polkit fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-4034: Fixed a local privilege escalation in pkexec bsc1194568...

polkit security update

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: CVE-2021-4034...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: polkit-0.117-3.fc34.1

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

Oracle Linux 7 : polkit (ELSA-2019-0230)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-0230 advisory. - Fix of CVE-2019-6133, PID reuse via slow fork Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note tha...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: polkit-0.115-2.fc28

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

SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1 Security update for polkit

This update for polkit fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2018-1116: Fix uid comparison lacking in polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization bsc1099031...

SUSE-SU-2015:1838-1 Security update for polkit

polkit was updated to the 0.113 release, fixing security issues and bugs. Security issues fixed: Fixes CVE-2015-4625, a local privilege escalation due to predictable authentication session cookie values. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Project Zero for reporting this issue. For the future,...

Security update for polkit (important)

Polkit was updated to 0.113 to fix four security issues. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: CVE-2015-4625: a local privilege escalation due to predictable authentication session cookie values. boo935119 CVE-2015-3256: various memory corruption vulnerabilities in use of the JavaScript...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: polkit-0.113-4.fc21

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