Mageia 2021-0244: polkit security update
Summary
A flaw was found in polkit. When a requesting process disconnects from dbus-daemon just before the call to polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync starts, the process cannot get a unique uid and pid of the process and it cannot verify the privileges of the requesting process (CVE-2021-3560).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29076
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2238
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3560
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0244 - Updated polkit packages fix a security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 8/core/polkit-0.118-1.1.mga8
- 7/core/polkit-0.116-1.1.mga7