Executive Summary

Summary
Title policykit-1 security update
Informations
Name DSA-4350 First vendor Publication 2018-12-06
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2018-12-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

It was discovered that incorrect processing of very high UIDs in Policykit, a framework for managing administrative policies and privileges, could result in authentication bypass.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.105-18+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.

For the detailed security status of policykit-1 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/policykit-1

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 5
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-2f8696869e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-4ac3c68ee4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-07 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4350.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-02-05 21:21:51
  • Multiple Updates
2018-12-07 00:18:31
  • First insertion