Mageia: 2021-0457 Critical: SystemD User Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
mageia
June 8, 2021
A flaw was found in polkit
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://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3560
Resolution
SRPMS
- 8/core/polkit-0.118-1.1.mga8
- 7/core/polkit-0.116-1.1.mga7
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Publication date: 08 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0244.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-3560
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