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openSUSE Leap 15.3: Security Advisory for Polkit Escalation (CVE-2021-3560)

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update addressing critical local privilege escalation in polkit has been released by openSUSE. Discover the steps to implement it.
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).

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update local privilege escalation important openSUSE polkit CVE-2021-3560

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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-1843=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libpolkit0-0.116-3.3.1

libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.116-3.3.1

polkit-0.116-3.3.1

polkit-debuginfo-0.116-3.3.1

polkit-debugsource-0.116-3.3.1

polkit-devel-0.116-3.3.1

polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.116-3.3.1

typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.116-3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

libpolkit0-32bit-0.116-3.3.1

libpolkit0-32bit-debuginfo-0.116-3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

polkit-doc-0.116-3.3.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186497

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1843-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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security advisory security update local privilege escalation important openSUSE polkit CVE-2021-3560

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