Name | CVE-2018-19788 |
Description | A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-1644-1, DSA-4350-1 |
NVD severity | high (attack range: remote) |
Debian Bugs | 915332 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
policykit-1 (PTS) | jessie | 0.105-15~deb8u2 | vulnerable |
jessie (security) | 0.105-15~deb8u4 | fixed | |
stretch (security), stretch | 0.105-18+deb9u1 | fixed | |
buster, sid | 0.105-25 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
policykit-1 | source | (unstable) | 0.105-23 | high | 915332 | |
policykit-1 | source | jessie | 0.105-15~deb8u4 | high | DLA-1644-1 | |
policykit-1 | source | stretch | 0.105-18+deb9u1 | high | DSA-4350-1 |
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/14
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/2cb40c4d5feeaa09325522bd7d97910f1b59e379
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/b534a10727455409acd54018a9c91000e7626126