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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="202107-31">
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<title>polkit: Privilege escalation</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability in polkit could lead to local root privilege
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escalation.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">polkit</product>
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<announced>2021-07-13</announced>
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<revised count="1">2021-07-13</revised>
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<bug>794052</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">0.119</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">0.119</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 related to unprivileged
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processes communicating with privileged process.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>The function polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() was called without
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checking for error, and as such temporarily treats the authentication
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request as coming from root.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="high">
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<p>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</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-0.119"
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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/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3560">CVE-2021-3560</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2021-07-13T00:16:39Z">ajak</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2021-07-13T02:29:59Z">ajak</metadata>
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</glsa>
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