CVE-2019-6133
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Summary
In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a | affected |
Weaknesses
- n/a
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/c898fdf4b1aafaa04f8ada9d73d77c8bb76e2f81
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-2/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b55851367136b1efd84d98fea81ba57a98304cf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-2/
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/19
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1692
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-2/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0420
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106537
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-1/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22715344
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-1/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00049.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-2/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2699
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2978
References
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/c898fdf4b1aafaa04f8ada9d73d77c8bb76e2f81
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-2/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b55851367136b1efd84d98fea81ba57a98304cf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-2/
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/19
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1692
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-2/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0420
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106537
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-1/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22715344
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-1/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00049.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-2/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2699
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2978
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