Advisories » MGASA-2021-0244

Updated polkit packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Jun 2021
Modification date: 08 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-3560

Description

A flaw was found in polkit. When a requesting process disconnects from dbus-daemon just before the call to polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync starts, the process cannot get a unique uid and pid of the process and it cannot verify the privileges of the requesting process (CVE-2021-3560).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29076
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2238
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3560

SRPMS

7/core

• polkit-0.116-1.1.mga7

8/core

• polkit-0.118-1.1.mga8