Debian DLA-1448-1 : policykit-1 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 111389

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability in policykit-1, a framework for managing administrative policies and privileges.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in policykit-1 version 0.105-15~deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/policykit-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 111389

File Name: debian_DLA-1448.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/30/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-polkit-1.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolkit-agent-1-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolkit-agent-1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolkit-backend-1-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolkit-backend-1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolkit-gobject-1-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolkit-gobject-1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:policykit-1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:policykit-1-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1116