RHSA-2022:0268: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security update

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Issued:

2022-01-25

Updated:

2022-01-25

RHSA-2022:0268 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: polkit security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones.

Security Fix(es):

• polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector (CVE-2021-4034)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2025869 - CVE-2021-4034 polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2022-001

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM

polkit-0.115-9.el8_1.2.src.rpm

SHA-256: 7c18eea8e8a0d796a6904541772196e2e2d9ee10fdcb5d4b53bf682c24cf0cae

ppc64le

polkit-0.115-9.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: f25d4bce3c723efc46f781100216ebcbdfbb9044a94d25fdc2b2d6daef7b6cb8

polkit-debuginfo-0.115-9.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 4c54e23e1c8e73a35f51a11019ff50c36586c88d34319ccffe10fc6d5a615f2f

polkit-debugsource-0.115-9.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 3f8af1af2baf4741f1f7e6e591b22811f9a2158e2dbd3ddceeca8ae00071ea3b

polkit-devel-0.115-9.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 67a7589d314ac6453c894cc21422f4484405a25b0f8aea81201250cd6975ca22

polkit-docs-0.115-9.el8_1.2.noarch.rpm

SHA-256: fc7cc05e0e8b0d4ff0734c33e87aa60e8dacafdb1b53de417d91f0f796c46736

polkit-libs-0.115-9.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 44ddc0eb6be99e0c30b939f282ba4f7f5e94709b4392a8acfc4e063e2d97f1e1

polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-9.el8_1.2.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: d57fa303a35a9e32598852a10b49a5abc1b9baa37656ba548fc75420e75404cc

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM

polkit-0.115-9.el8_1.2.src.rpm

SHA-256: 7c18eea8e8a0d796a6904541772196e2e2d9ee10fdcb5d4b53bf682c24cf0cae

x86_64

polkit-0.115-9.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 083c36c639947fbc96851938892bcf52c82a3d8fc933ab37255d499e9daf2113

polkit-debuginfo-0.115-9.el8_1.2.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 0e06923ae4a7f316322ac7971323c4f65f857c85cbd58ba32ea9213f797bc548

polkit-debuginfo-0.115-9.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 870f46b8a3a495bd1492279d7e89a3cf038da13a9b2e9ee30cb5d08627d8f055

polkit-debugsource-0.115-9.el8_1.2.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 34c74dd4375cc7541a06acc9408852a11ffae2ccc1f788d05c2e8cd70e127f0b

polkit-debugsource-0.115-9.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 6d2bacc12cac4c713208ecbd7242d93e9307c83c43ebb91f1357257acb9d1be7

polkit-devel-0.115-9.el8_1.2.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 35001995839cb02f80cf84ee99fb55738c9c4fe5c3d176ccd34a3cca2bf3477e

polkit-devel-0.115-9.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 4060edf87e604087086ab6a3d62d4b100d905f8921500847bdfa2abd429c8205

polkit-docs-0.115-9.el8_1.2.noarch.rpm

SHA-256: fc7cc05e0e8b0d4ff0734c33e87aa60e8dacafdb1b53de417d91f0f796c46736

polkit-libs-0.115-9.el8_1.2.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 975cfdc61c887982d4bc39de1d38d90cc1f3febbc134d92b5f94c92f9dd5ae7a

polkit-libs-0.115-9.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 100c8e8f6fd0ab2a8d484571ed5bfa7011aeddf41cf570a94bae494d890dbfd5

polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-9.el8_1.2.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 72efebd303d8d7d98b0d2dc451bc3fb377cf26a6675b539e7b21ce4f204ab76a

polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-9.el8_1.2.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 452f3caec3727ffebc1a567350d812dfdbe30cc5582ac7c48f46d070c86d9f2c

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