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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
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A crucial moderate patch for polkit has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 to tackle vulnerabilities.
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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