Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security update
An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.
describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-6133US | medium6.7 | — | ||
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. Th… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
remediations (9)
- Fixedpolkit-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 - Fixedpolkit-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 - Fixedpolkit-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 - Fixedpolkit-debuginfo-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 - Fixedpolkit-debuginfo-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 - Fixedpolkit-desktop-policy-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 - Fixedpolkit-devel-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 - Fixedpolkit-devel-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 - Fixedpolkit-docs-0:0.96-7.el6_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832
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