On 12/6/18 2:13 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
On a related note to pkexec, anyone know how to mitigate this?

https://thehackernews.com/2018/12/linux-user-privilege-policykit.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-19788

"Do not allow negative UIDs or UIDs greater than 2147483646."

....... which is weird, since patches were upstream:
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zbyszek/polkit/commit/fbaab32cb4ed9ed5f1e3eea6cd317d443aa427dc
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zbyszek/polkit/commit/7c8c3abdedbb991a69bc5f1ab0f96576958b55de

I'll ask around on the RHEL product security team to see what's up.