openSUSE Security Update: Security update for polkit ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1734-1 Rating: important References: #933922 #935119 #939246 #943816 Cross-References: CVE-2015-3218 CVE-2015-3255 CVE-2015-3256 CVE-2015-4625 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.
Description:
Polkit was updated to 0.113 to fix four security issues.
The following vulnerabilities were fixed:
* CVE-2015-4625: a local privilege escalation due to predictable authentication session cookie values. (boo#935119) * CVE-2015-3256: various memory corruption vulnerabilities in use of the JavaScript interpreter, possibly leading to local privilege escalation. (boo#943816) * CVE-2015-3255: a memory corruption vulnerability in handling duplicate action IDs, possibly leading to local privilege escalation. (boo#939246) * CVE-2015-3218: Allowed any local user to crash polkitd. (boo#933922)
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 13.2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-655=1
- openSUSE 13.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-655=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):
libpolkit0-0.113-3.8.1 libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1 polkit-0.113-3.8.1 polkit-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1 polkit-debugsource-0.113-3.8.1 polkit-devel-0.113-3.8.1 polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1 typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-3.8.1
- openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64):
libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-3.8.1 libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-3.8.1
- openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):
polkit-doc-0.113-3.8.1
- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):
libpolkit0-0.113-9.1 libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-9.1 polkit-0.113-9.1 polkit-debuginfo-0.113-9.1 polkit-debugsource-0.113-9.1 polkit-devel-0.113-9.1 polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.113-9.1 typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-9.1
- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):
libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-9.1 libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-9.1
- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):
polkit-doc-0.113-9.1
References:
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3218.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3255.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3256.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4625.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/933922 https://bugzilla.suse.com/935119 https://bugzilla.suse.com/939246 https://bugzilla.suse.com/943816