Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package policykit-1  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-POLICYKIT1-318622
  • published11 Jan 2019
  • disclosed11 Jan 2019

Introduced: 11 Jan 2019

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream policykit-1 package and not the policykit-1 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.