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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:4282-1 Moderate Polkit UID Security Issue

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has issued a security patch for polkit to mitigate CVE-2018-19788, which carries a moderate risk rating. It is crucial to update your systems accordingly.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for polkit fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-19788: Fixed handling of UIDs over MAX_UINT (boo#1118277)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1617=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libpolkit0-0.113-14.6.1

libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-14.6.1

polkit-0.113-14.6.1

polkit-debuginfo-0.113-14.6.1

polkit-debugsource-0.113-14.6.1

polkit-devel-0.113-14.6.1

polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.113-14.6.1

typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-14.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

polkit-doc-0.113-14.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-14.6.1

libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-14.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19788.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1118277

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:4282-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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