Ubuntu 19.04: USN-4037-1 Moderate: Policykit Desktop Action Privileges

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June 25, 2019

A security improvement has been made to policykit-desktop-privileges.

Summary

A security improvement has been made to policykit-desktop-privileges.

Software Description:

- policykit-desktop-privileges: run common desktop actions without password

Details:

The policykit-desktop-privileges Startup Disk Creator policy allowed

administrative users to overwrite disks. As a security improvement, this

operation now requires authentication.

Topics Covered

security advisory update authentication ubuntu policykit privileges

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
  policykit-desktop-privileges    0.20ubuntu19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
  policykit-desktop-privileges    0.20ubuntu18.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  policykit-desktop-privileges    0.20ubuntu18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  policykit-desktop-privileges    0.20ubuntu16.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.