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CentOS 7 : polkit-qt (CESA-2014:1359)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78070

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated polkit-qt packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Polkit-qt is a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a Qt-styled API. The polkit-qt library is used by the KDE Authentication Agent (KAuth), which is a part of kdelibs.

It was found that polkit-qt handled authorization requests with PolicyKit via a D-Bus API that is vulnerable to a race condition. A local user could use this flaw to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations. This update modifies polkit-qt to communicate with PolicyKit via a different API that is not vulnerable to the race condition. (CVE-2014-5033)

All polkit-qt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected polkit-qt packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d100244d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78070

File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-1359.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-5033

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:polkit-qt, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:polkit-qt-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:polkit-qt-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5033

RHSA: 2014:1359