Bug 886671
| Summary: | CVE-2012-5617 gksu-polkit: privilege escalation due to improper authentication settings in policykit configuration file [fedora-18] | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Vincent Danen <vdanen> | ||||
| Component: | gksu-polkit | Assignee: | Dan Mashal <dan.mashal> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 18 | CC: | extras-orphan, jpokorny, mitr | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened, Security, SecurityTracking | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Release Note | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2013-07-23 16:27:11 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: | |||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 883162 | ||||||
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Description
Vincent Danen
2012-12-12 20:41:50 UTC
Please use the following update submission link to create the Bodhi request for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as this tracking bug. This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated when new packages are pushed to stable. Please also ensure that the "Close bugs when update is stable" option remains checked. Bodhi update submission link: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/new/?type_=security&bugs=883162,886671 Created attachment 697243 [details] Patch for the master branch This is a patch for the master branch. To test this, you may need to > cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/{gksu-polkit-systemd_unit,gksu.service} then follow instructions in bug #883162. Could a provenpackager test the patch and apply on F17 and F18, and preferably retire the package (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life) for F19 and rawhide, please? This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 Package gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-3032/gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback). gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Please see bug #987562 to track this "incorrect fix of a fix" bug. I've already assigned a CVE for the incorrect fix and created the tracking bug. |