Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

                							

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Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

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From: Bastian Blank &lt;bblank () thinkmo de&gt;

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:29:06 +0100

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 01:45:33PM +0100, Kai Lüke wrote:
An alternative to pkexec that is not setuid but also uses polkit auth
is systemd-run (here is an attempt at mimicking the sudo UX:
https://gist.github.com/pothos/73dd4f7694acc3b6bbed614438f6e2b1).

Or just "machinectl login .host".

Bastian

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Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Sam James (Jan 25)

Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez (Jan 26)

Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Henri Salo (Jan 26)
Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Erik Auerswald (Jan 26)
Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Chris Boot (Jan 27)

Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Matthias Schmidt (Jan 26)

Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Dominik Czarnota (Jan 26)

Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Kai Lüke (Jan 27)
Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Bastian Blank (Jan 27)

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