polkit: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201908-14

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in polkit, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation.

Affected packages

sys-auth/polkit on all architectures
Affected versions < 0.115-r2
Unaffected versions >= 0.115-r2

Background

polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged processes communicating with privileged processes.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in polkit. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/polkit-0.115-r2"
 

References

Release date
August 15, 2019

Latest revision
August 15, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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