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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0838-1 Important: polkit Local Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 4, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important security patch for polkit on openSUSE resolving local privilege escalation issues. Update immediately to ensure your system's safety.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for polkit fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-3560: Fixed a local privilege escalation using

polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() (bsc#1186497).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important local escalation openSUSE polkit

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-838=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

libpolkit0-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

polkit-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

polkit-debuginfo-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

polkit-debugsource-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

polkit-devel-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

polkit-doc-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libpolkit0-32bit-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

libpolkit0-32bit-debuginfo-0.116-lp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3560.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186497

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0838-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important local escalation openSUSE polkit

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