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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201908-14">
  <title>polkit: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in polkit, the worst of
    which could result in privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">polkit</product>
  <announced>2019-08-15</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-08-15</revised>
  <bug>661470</bug>
  <bug>672578</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-auth/polkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.115-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.115-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged
      processes communicating with privileged processes.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in polkit. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-auth/polkit-0.115-r2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1116">CVE-2018-1116</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19788">CVE-2018-19788</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-08-11T21:46:16Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-08-15T15:54:53Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>