Fedora 29: polkit Security Update
Summary
polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is
used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged
processes.
Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs
* Fri Dec 7 2018 Jan Rybar
- Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs
- Resolves: rhbz#1655926
* Thu Sep 27 2018 Owen Taylor
- Fix installation with prefix != /usr
* Fri Jul 20 2018 Jan Rybar
- Warning raised by polkit when disconnected from ssh
- polkitagentlistener: resource leak - pointer to 'server'
- Error message raised on every 'systemctl start' in emergency.target
[ 1 ] Bug #1655926 - CVE-2018-19788 polkit: Improper handling of user with uid > INT_MAX leading to authentication bypass [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655926
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-2f8696869e' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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FEDORA-2018-2f8696869e 2018-12-10 02:31:09.366320 Product : Fedora 29 Version : 0.115 Release : 4.1.fc29 URL : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/ Summary : An authorization framework Description : polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs * Fri Dec 7 2018 Jan Rybar - 0.115-4.1 - Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs - Resolves: rhbz#1655926 * Thu Sep 27 2018 Owen Taylor - 0.115-4 - Fix installation with prefix != /usr * Fri Jul 20 2018 Jan Rybar - 0.115-3 - Warning raised by polkit when disconnected from ssh - polkitagentlistener: resource leak - pointer to 'server' - Error message raised on every 'systemctl start' in emergency.target [ 1 ] Bug #1655926 - CVE-2018-19788 polkit: Improper handling of user with uid > INT_MAX leading to authentication bypass [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655926 su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-2f8696869e' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
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