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Medium ALAS2-2019-1331 1 CVE

Moderate: polkit security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 21, 2019 · Updated Oct 23, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-19788: A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command. 99999: CVE-2018-19788 polkit: Improper handling of user with uid > INT_MAX leading to authentication bypass

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 polkit 0:0.112-22.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 polkit-debuginfo 0:0.112-22.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 polkit-devel 0:0.112-22.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 polkit-docs 0:0.112-22.amzn2.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-19788.html