On 12/6/18 2:18 PM, Shawn Wells wrote:
On 12/6/18 2:13 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> On a related note to pkexec, anyone know how to mitigate this?
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https://thehackernews.com/2018/12/linux-user-privilege-policykit.html
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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:
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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zbyszek/polkit/commit/fbaab32cb4ed9ed5f1e3...
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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zbyszek/polkit/commit/7c8c3abdedbb991a69bc...
I'll ask around on the RHEL product security team to see what's up.
If anyone wants to follow along:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655925