Bug 1664212 (CVE-2019-6133)
| Summary: | CVE-2019-6133 polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Sam Fowler <sfowler> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | abhgupta, bmcclain, dbaker, dblechte, dfediuck, eedri, jokerman, jrybar, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, polkit-devel, psampaio, sbonazzo, security-response-team, sherold, sthangav, trankin, yturgema |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A vulnerability was found in polkit. When authentication is performed by a non-root user to perform an administrative task, the authentication is temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining access to elevated privileges.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-10 10:44:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1667310, 1667311, 1667312, 1667777, 1667778, 1690802, 1690803, 1746059, 1746060 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1664214 | ||
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Description
Sam Fowler
2019-01-08 04:17:22 UTC
Acknowledgments: Name: Jan Rybar (freedesktop.org) Upstream: Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) External References: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1692 Upstream bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/75 Created polkit tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1667777] Created polkit tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1667777] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:0230 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2019:0420 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0420 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support Via RHSA-2019:0832 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2019:2699 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2699 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2019:2978 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2978 |