ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2019-6133

In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.7
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 live-serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00049.html
  2. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106537
  3. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230
  4. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0420
  5. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832
  6. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2699
  7. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2978
  8. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1692
  9. https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b55851367136b1efd84d98fea81ba57a98304cf
  10. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/c898fdf4b1aafaa04f8ada9d73d77c8bb76e2f81
  11. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/19
  12. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html
  13. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html
  14. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html
  15. https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22715344
  16. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-1/
  17. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-2/
  18. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-1/
  19. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-2/
  20. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-1/