Issued:
2019-10-08
Updated:
2019-10-08

RHSA-2019:2978 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: polkit security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones.

Security Fix(es):

  • polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork (CVE-2019-6133)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1664212 - CVE-2019-6133 polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5

SRPM
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.src.rpm SHA-256: f404938de0db8607fd761254c291c657a2804e65e50dad867c7d76b086e6082f
x86_64
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: b704b2ac2ed2e012685fc67284702f00c166b048a1f588b121eb69527943352f
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 45653081b426d05b57d07e8a53846baaaefef53b11cc7d9b432afeae8af4f134
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: aa348f90efffe83623377442db44c3c5f8a62103b6aeb1eef9d61d25ac8e5bf4
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5360824596a0dfc3016e74e7da793b006f365b0e26a0acc938d683facba7ed3d
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0b5fa860b5d7dda954ca18c5e98fdc8ae7566ff1966b170ae46ce5d3ca93b373
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ea53c31f63aec42f784feece12f6e4140598937457ec4ca515ea26f9cd585ed3
polkit-docs-0.112-14.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 98dacd53575d69f45d38d7da301f32331b0f32d1b83fe5c0125c156f16c9772d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5

SRPM
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.src.rpm SHA-256: f404938de0db8607fd761254c291c657a2804e65e50dad867c7d76b086e6082f
s390x
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: 93cbf0e42115e7822f23bbedb9980991120f61470ad610e21bbcb98a3fdb3195
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 7006d210f0073eea78313300aaf2547281a664b57c5482c8f927ae7f36201108
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: eb18a8ead531ea342eda73de3ef737d4d91e9669c12590da5cf6c2b305d3d7e0
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: ecfc0f20067e778df1b0de5a963d3d1ca01974691a8a787275281b37b4097487
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: f2bc3a7b4aadc04716a7d6660a7d6e6e35024849cfb9cc8c35e17311c41d1c33
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: ebfecdc7e895c78885e247fd5e67e763710855479610a869022d7d38aed08f69
polkit-docs-0.112-14.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 98dacd53575d69f45d38d7da301f32331b0f32d1b83fe5c0125c156f16c9772d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5

SRPM
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.src.rpm SHA-256: f404938de0db8607fd761254c291c657a2804e65e50dad867c7d76b086e6082f
ppc64
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 08ff0212e0d50d3b9d5a0f386cecd01d76b3eefe53689006d705d4f1ae904a2e
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 8ca6f29c029f86c79acd67cd954cb48184a3d71a983da941a9a235fe4b80b4c2
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 78c7a0555e0be127b64408ca623ad19a6ec30bacb05f03990b74cda739670cc2
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 0f585aae8b7284b198857816dd9948fdb82e6ce5226f7942bebf277cf9725df8
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 830fa3dda0da848137a6ae29ff48849db18d25357b5821cc10cb739636936f6a
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 86c3156ff69754e801f4ff3978974230a5a804ac6a47291c2aec92cc440cdf24
polkit-docs-0.112-14.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 98dacd53575d69f45d38d7da301f32331b0f32d1b83fe5c0125c156f16c9772d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5

SRPM
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.src.rpm SHA-256: f404938de0db8607fd761254c291c657a2804e65e50dad867c7d76b086e6082f
x86_64
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: b704b2ac2ed2e012685fc67284702f00c166b048a1f588b121eb69527943352f
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 45653081b426d05b57d07e8a53846baaaefef53b11cc7d9b432afeae8af4f134
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: aa348f90efffe83623377442db44c3c5f8a62103b6aeb1eef9d61d25ac8e5bf4
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: aa348f90efffe83623377442db44c3c5f8a62103b6aeb1eef9d61d25ac8e5bf4
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5360824596a0dfc3016e74e7da793b006f365b0e26a0acc938d683facba7ed3d
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5360824596a0dfc3016e74e7da793b006f365b0e26a0acc938d683facba7ed3d
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0b5fa860b5d7dda954ca18c5e98fdc8ae7566ff1966b170ae46ce5d3ca93b373
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ea53c31f63aec42f784feece12f6e4140598937457ec4ca515ea26f9cd585ed3
polkit-docs-0.112-14.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 98dacd53575d69f45d38d7da301f32331b0f32d1b83fe5c0125c156f16c9772d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5

SRPM
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.src.rpm SHA-256: f404938de0db8607fd761254c291c657a2804e65e50dad867c7d76b086e6082f
ppc64le
polkit-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d39072303ddd842c8b4da4542aaf9e2fa1270616ea772379aa3212a139cf84d2
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b18d72203cd24a63a33f3716b85553678675c013c44b4b3d30d95323e1264095
polkit-devel-0.112-14.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 9d1a3b10b2e6705b21319454e0e93fa3391181a34df6b48f99df60924b1a6165
polkit-docs-0.112-14.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 98dacd53575d69f45d38d7da301f32331b0f32d1b83fe5c0125c156f16c9772d

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