CVE-2019-6133
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 11, 2019
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 11, 2019
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/c898fdf4b1aafaa04f8ada9d73d77c8bb76e2f81
- USN-3903-2vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2019:0230vendor-advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b55851367136b1efd84d98fea81ba57a98304cf
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190128 [SECURITY] [DLA 1644-1] policykit-1 security updatemailing-list
- USN-3910-1vendor-advisory
- USN-3901-2vendor-advisory
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/19
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1692
- USN-3910-2vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2019:0420vendor-advisory
- USN-3908-2vendor-advisory
- USN-3901-1vendor-advisory
- USN-3903-1vendor-advisory
- 106537vdb-entry
- USN-3908-1vendor-advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22715344
- USN-3934-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2019:0832vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190528 [SECURITY] [DLA 1799-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190528 [SECURITY] [DLA 1799-2] linux security updatemailing-list
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1914vendor-advisory
- USN-3934-2vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2019:2699vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2019:2978vendor-advisory
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