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CVE-2021-4115
Medium priorityThere is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage...
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | — | Not affected | Fixed | Not affected | Not affected |
CVE-2021-4034
High prioritySome fixes available 6 of 7
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The...
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | — | Fixed | Fixed | Fixed | Fixed |
CVE-2021-3560
High priorityIt was found that polkit could be tricked into bypassing the credential checks for D-Bus requests, elevating the privileges of the requestor to the root user. This flaw could be used by an unprivileged local attacker to, for...
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | — | Fixed | Fixed | Not affected | Not affected |
CVE-2019-6133
Medium prioritySome fixes available 41 of 48
In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking...
30 affected packages
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-edge...
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-aws | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-aws-hwe | — | — | — | Not in release | Fixed |
| linux-azure | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-azure-edge | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-euclid | — | — | — | Not in release | Ignored |
| linux-flo | — | — | — | Not in release | Ignored |
| linux-gcp | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-gcp-edge | — | — | — | Fixed | Not in release |
| linux-gke | — | — | — | Not in release | Ignored |
| linux-gke-4.15 | — | — | — | Not affected | Not in release |
| linux-gke-5.0 | — | — | — | Not affected | Not in release |
| linux-goldfish | — | — | — | Not in release | Ignored |
| linux-grouper | — | — | — | Not in release | Not in release |
| linux-hwe | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-hwe-edge | — | — | — | Not affected | Fixed |
| linux-kvm | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-lts-trusty | — | — | — | Not in release | Not in release |
| linux-lts-utopic | — | — | — | Not in release | Not in release |
| linux-lts-vivid | — | — | — | Not in release | Not in release |
| linux-lts-wily | — | — | — | Not in release | Not in release |
| linux-lts-xenial | — | — | — | Not in release | Not in release |
| linux-maguro | — | — | — | Not in release | Not in release |
| linux-mako | — | — | — | Not in release | Ignored |
| linux-manta | — | — | — | Not in release | Not in release |
| linux-oem | — | — | — | Fixed | Ignored |
| linux-oracle | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-raspi2 | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| linux-snapdragon | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
| policykit-1 | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
CVE-2018-19788
Medium priorityA 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.
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
CVE-2018-1116
Medium priorityA flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated...
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |
CVE-2016-2568
Low prioritypkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | Vulnerable | Vulnerable | Vulnerable | Vulnerable | Vulnerable |
CVE-2015-3256
Low priorityPolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | — | — | — | — | — |
CVE-2015-4625
Low prioritySome fixes available 13 of 16
Integer overflow in the authentication_agent_new_cookie function in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of a duplicate...
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | — | — | Fixed | Fixed | Fixed |
CVE-2015-3255
Low prioritySome fixes available 7 of 9
The polkit_backend_action_pool_init function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 might allow local users to gain privileges via duplicate action IDs in action descriptions.
1 affected packages
policykit-1
| Package | 24.04 LTS | 22.04 LTS | 20.04 LTS | 18.04 LTS | 16.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| policykit-1 | — | — | — | Fixed | Fixed |