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RedHat 6: RHSA-2019-0420-01 Critical: Polkit Auth Hijack

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2019
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An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones.
Security Fix(es):
* polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork (CVE-2019-6133)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important polkit auth hijack

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6133 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.1.src.rpm
i386: polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm
noarch: polkit-desktop-policy-0.96-11.el6_10.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64: polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-docs-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm polkit-docs-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.1.src.rpm
x86_64: polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
noarch: polkit-desktop-policy-0.96-11.el6_10.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64: polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6_10.1.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0420-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0420
Issue date: 2019-02-26

Topic

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important polkit auth hijack

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, noarch, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1664212 - CVE-2019-6133 polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork

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