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Fedora 29 : polkit (2019-e957cecffd)

high Nessus Plugin ID 121142

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Due to kernel issue there is a way to reuse start_time of a process.
This allows to duplicate process authorized by polkit.

This update mitigates polkit issue #75 (slowfork):
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/75

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected polkit package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-e957cecffd

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/75

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121142

File Name: fedora_2019-e957cecffd.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2019

Updated: 9/23/2019

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:polkit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2019

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