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openSUSE 13.1/13.2: 2015:1734-1 Critical Polkit Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2015
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Important update for Fedora: Security patch addressing vulnerabilities in NetworkManager fixed potential remote access and data exposure in releases 32 and 33.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Description

Polkit was updated to 0.113 to fix four security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

* CVE-2015-4625: a local privilege escalation due to predictable

authentication session cookie values. (boo#935119)

* CVE-2015-3256: various memory corruption vulnerabilities in use of the

JavaScript interpreter, possibly leading to local privilege escalation.

(boo#943816)

* CVE-2015-3255: a memory corruption vulnerability in handling duplicate

action IDs, possibly leading to local privilege escalation. (boo#939246)

* CVE-2015-3218: Allowed any local user to crash polkitd. (boo#933922)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical memory corruption patch local escalation openSUSE polkit

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-655=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-655=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

libpolkit0-0.113-3.8.1

libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1

polkit-0.113-3.8.1

polkit-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1

polkit-debugsource-0.113-3.8.1

polkit-devel-0.113-3.8.1

polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1

typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-3.8.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64):

libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-3.8.1

libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-3.8.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):

polkit-doc-0.113-3.8.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

libpolkit0-0.113-9.1

libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-9.1

polkit-0.113-9.1

polkit-debuginfo-0.113-9.1

polkit-debugsource-0.113-9.1

polkit-devel-0.113-9.1

polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.113-9.1

typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-9.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-9.1

libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-9.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

polkit-doc-0.113-9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3218.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3255.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3256.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4625.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=933922

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935119

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=939246

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=943816

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1734-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical memory corruption patch local escalation openSUSE polkit

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