ALAS2-2019-1331

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-19788  

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.(CVE-2018-19788)

ALAS2-2019-1331


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1331
Advisory Release Date: 2019-10-21 18:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-10-23 23:55 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2018-19788 

Issue Overview:

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.(CVE-2018-19788)


Affected Packages:

polkit


Issue Correction:
Run yum update polkit to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    polkit-0.112-22.amzn2.1.aarch64
    polkit-devel-0.112-22.amzn2.1.aarch64
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-22.amzn2.1.aarch64

i686:
    polkit-0.112-22.amzn2.1.i686
    polkit-devel-0.112-22.amzn2.1.i686
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-22.amzn2.1.i686

noarch:
    polkit-docs-0.112-22.amzn2.1.noarch

src:
    polkit-0.112-22.amzn2.1.src

x86_64:
    polkit-0.112-22.amzn2.1.x86_64
    polkit-devel-0.112-22.amzn2.1.x86_64
    polkit-debuginfo-0.112-22.amzn2.1.x86_64