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SUSE MicroOS 5.0: 2021:1843-1 Important: Polkit Local Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2021
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Addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability within polkit impacting SUSE MicroOS and its enterprise components. Critical security enhancement.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

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). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE 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: - SUSE MicroOS 5.0: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-1843=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2021-1843=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-1843=1 Package List: - SUSE MicroOS 5.0 (aarch64 x86_64): libpolkit0-0.116-3.3.1 libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.116-3.3.1

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security advisory security update important local escalation polkit SUSE Linux Enterprise SUSE MicroOS

References

#1186497

Cross- CVE-2021-3560

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-3560 (SUSE): 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE MicroOS 5.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186497

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1843-1
Rating: important

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