SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1)
Low Nessus Plugin ID 111509
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for polkit fixes the following issues: Security issue
fixed :
- CVE-2018-1116: Fix uid comparison lacking in
polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization
(bsc#1099031).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2018-1468=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t
patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-1468=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-1468=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-1468=1