RLSA-2021:2238
Important: polkit security update
Topic
An update is available for polkit.
This update affects Rocky Linux 8.
A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list
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 using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() (CVE-2021-3560)
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.
Rocky Linux 8
SRPMs
- polkit-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.src.rpm
RPMs
- polkit-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm
- polkit-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
- polkit-debuginfo-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm
- polkit-debuginfo-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
- polkit-debuginfo-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
- polkit-debugsource-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm
- polkit-debugsource-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
- polkit-debugsource-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
- polkit-devel-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm
- polkit-devel-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
- polkit-devel-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
- polkit-docs-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.noarch.rpm
- polkit-libs-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm
- polkit-libs-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
- polkit-libs-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
- polkit-libs-debuginfo-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm
- polkit-libs-debuginfo-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
- polkit-libs-debuginfo-0:0.115-11.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
Issued: 6/3/2021
Type: Security
Severity: Important
Affected Product
- Rocky Linux 8
Fixes
References
- No references