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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1644-1 policykit-1 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 Jan 2019

Affected Packages:

policykit-1

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-19788, CVE-2019-6133.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were found in Policykit, a framework for managing administrative policies and privileges:

• CVE-2018-19788

  It was discovered that incorrect processing of very high UIDs in Policykit could result in authentication bypass.

• CVE-2019-6133

  Jann Horn of Google found that Policykit doesn't properly check if a process is already authenticated, which can lead to an authentication reuse by a different user.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.105-15~deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.

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