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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6: RHSA-2019-3232-01 Moderate Polkit Update

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Calendar Grey October 29, 2019
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An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Mod...

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: Improper handling of user with uid > INT_MAX leading to authentication bypass (CVE-2018-19788)
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 moderate red hat server authentication bypass polkit

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19788 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.src.rpm
x86_64: polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.i686.rpm polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6):
noarch: polkit-docs-0.112-18.el7_6.2.noarch.rpm
x86_64: polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.2.i686.rpm polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.src.rpm
noarch: polkit-docs-0.112-18.el7_6.2.noarch.rpm
ppc64: polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc.rpm polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc64.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc64.rpm polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc.rpm polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.s390.rpm polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.2.s390x.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.s390.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.el7_6.2.s390x.rpm polkit-devel-0.112-18.el7_6.2.s390.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3232-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232
Issue date: 2019-10-29

Topic

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat server authentication bypass polkit

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1655925 - CVE-2018-19788 polkit: Improper handling of user with uid > INT_MAX leading to authentication bypass

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