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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201611-07">
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<title>polkit: Heap-corruption on duplicate IDs </title>
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<synopsis>polkit is vulnerable to local privilege escalation.</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">polkit</product>
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<announced>2016-11-15</announced>
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<revised count="1">2016-11-15</revised>
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<bug>555666</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="sys-auth/polkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">0.113</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">0.113</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged
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processes communicating with privileged processes.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>A vulnerability was discovered in polkit’s
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polkit_backend_action_pool_init function due to duplicate action IDs in
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action descriptions.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>Local attackers are able to gain unauthorized privileges on the system.</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/polkit-0.113"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3255">CVE-2015-3255</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-12-25T00:47:50Z">
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BlueKnight
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-11-15T07:23:23Z">b-man</metadata>
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</glsa>
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