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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201908-14
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: polkit: Multiple vulnerabilities
     Date: August 15, 2019
     Bugs: #661470, #672578
       ID: 201908-14

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in polkit, the worst of which
could result in privilege escalation.

Background
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polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged
processes communicating with privileged processes.

Affected packages
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     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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  1  sys-auth/polkit             < 0.115-r2               >= 0.115-r2 

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in polkit. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
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Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/polkit-0.115-r2"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2018-1116
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1116
[ 2 ] CVE-2018-19788
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19788

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2019 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/