medium4.4
CVE-2018-1116
A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116.
Impact
A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 8.0 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Version 12.04 |
| Polkit Project | Polkit | before 0.115 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/