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fedora
Calendar Grey January 13, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Mitigating risks of process redundancy via the recent polkit upgrade in Fedora 29, bolstering protection.
Due to kernel issue there is a way to reuse start_time of a process

Summary

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is

used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged

processes.

Due to kernel issue there is a way to reuse start_time of a process. This allows

to duplicate process authorized by polkit. This update mitigates polkit issue

#75 (slowfork): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/75

* Mon Jan 7 2019 Jan Rybar - 0.115-5

- Fix of start_time reuse exploit (slowfork)

* Fri Dec 7 2018 Jan Rybar - 0.115-4.1

- Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs

- Resolves: rhbz#1655926

* Thu Sep 27 2018 Owen Taylor - 0.115-4

- Fix installation with prefix != /usr

* Fri Jul 20 2018 Jan Rybar - 0.115-3

- Warning raised by polkit when disconnected from ssh

- polkitagentlistener: resource leak - pointer to 'server'

- Error message raised on every 'systemctl start' in emergency.target

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-e957cecffd' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 0.115
Release: 4.2.fc29
Summary: An authorization framework

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