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authorV3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org>2019-08-18 18:16:17 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201908-14">
+ <title>polkit: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in polkit, the worst of
+ which could result in privilege escalation.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">polkit</product>
+ <announced>2019-08-15</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2019-08-15</revised>
+ <bug>661470</bug>
+ <bug>672578</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-auth/polkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.115-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.115-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged
+ processes communicating with privileged processes.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in polkit. Please review
+ the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-auth/polkit-0.115-r2"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1116">CVE-2018-1116</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19788">CVE-2018-19788</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-08-11T21:46:16Z">b-man</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-08-15T15:54:53Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>