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Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package polkit-doc  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-POLKITDOC-2742865
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed30 Jul 2019
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Introduced: 30 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-6133  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream polkit-doc package and not the polkit-doc package as distributed by SLES.

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 in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

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