CVE-2018-1116

Description

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

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/

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3