All the vulnerabilites related to [UNKNOWN] - polkit
cve-2018-1116
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-10 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 03:51
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/ | vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU | |
| https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html | mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14 | vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO |
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