PackageKit: race condition vulnerability leads to arbitrary package installation as root

A flaw was found in PackageKit. A time-of-check time-of-use TOCTOU race condition on transaction flags allows unprivileged users to install packages as root, resulting in a local privilege escalation...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: PackageKit security update

An update for PackageKit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support. 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: PackageKit security update

An update for PackageKit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common...

CVE-2026-41651

A flaw was found in PackageKit. A time-of-check time-of-use TOCTOU race condition on transaction flags allows unprivileged users to install packages as root, resulting in a local privilege escalation. Mitigation To mitigate this vulnerability, mask the PackageKit service. Note that graphical...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: nix-2.34.5-1.fc44

Nix is a purely functional package manager. It allows multiple versions of a package to be installed side-by-side, ensures that dependency specifications are complete, supports atomic upgrades and rollbacks, allows non-root users to install software, and has many other features. It is the basis o...

CLSA-2023-1674164204 rpm: Fix of CVE-2021-35938

CVE-2021-35938: drop the patch and following descriptor leak fix because these patches breaks non-root source package installation and can't be relied on without backporting a lot of the surrounding upstream code...

TAU Threat Analysis: Bundlore (macOS) mm-install-macos

The mm-install-macos variant of the Bundlore family of macOS adware has been around for many years in many variations and delivery methods. Recently, a variant with a novel installation method was discovered. Although most of the installation details were the same or similar to the samples analyz...