GLSA 201611-07: polkit: Heap-corruption on duplicate IDs
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | polkit: Heap-corruption on duplicate IDs |
| Date: | 11/15/2016 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 201611-07 |
Synopsis
polkit is vulnerable to local privilege escalation.Background
polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged processes communicating with privileged processes.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| sys-auth/polkit | < 0.113 | >= 0.113 | All supported architectures |
Description
A vulnerability was discovered in polkit’s polkit_backend_action_pool_init function due to duplicate action IDs in action descriptions.
Impact
Local attackers are able to gain unauthorized privileges on the system.
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-0.113"
References
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
Concerns?
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License
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