Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | polkit security update |
Informations | |||
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Name | RHSA-2019:0230 | First vendor Publication | 2019-01-31 |
Vendor | RedHat | Last vendor Modification | 2019-01-31 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 01 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 4.4 | Attack Range | Local |
Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 3.4 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
Problem Description: 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 the CVE link(s) in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x 3. Description: The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Security Fix(es): * polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork (CVE-2019-6133) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Red Hat would like to thank Jan Rybar (freedesktop.org) for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) as the original reporter. 4. Solution: For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1664212 - CVE-2019-6133 polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork |
Original Source
Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019-0230.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-362 | Race Condition |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Type | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
Os | 5 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 2 | |
Os | 2 | |
Os | 2 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 2 |
Alert History
Date | Informations |
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2019-02-04 13:18:50 |
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