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Severity: High
Title: polkit: Privilege escalation
Date: July 13, 2021
Bugs: #794052
ID: 202107-31

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Synopsis
========

A vulnerability in polkit could lead to local root privilege
escalation.

Background
==========

polkit is a toolkit for managing policies related to unprivileged
processes communicating with privileged process.

Affected packages
=================

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 sys-auth/polkit < 0.119 >= 0.119

Description
===========

The function polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() was called without checking for error, and as such temporarily treats the authentication
request as coming from root.

Impact
======

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/polkit-0.119"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2021-3560
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3560

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-31

Concerns?
=========

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2021 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5


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