Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1171
Advisory Release Date: 2019-03-07 05:58 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-03-08 00:44 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A vulnerability was found in polkit. When authentication is performed by a non-root user to perform an administrative task, the authentication is temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining access to elevated privileges.(CVE-2019-6133)
Affected Packages:
polkit
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update polkit to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
polkit-0.112-18.amzn2.1.aarch64
polkit-devel-0.112-18.amzn2.1.aarch64
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.amzn2.1.aarch64
i686:
polkit-0.112-18.amzn2.1.i686
polkit-devel-0.112-18.amzn2.1.i686
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.amzn2.1.i686
noarch:
polkit-docs-0.112-18.amzn2.1.noarch
src:
polkit-0.112-18.amzn2.1.src
x86_64:
polkit-0.112-18.amzn2.1.x86_64
polkit-devel-0.112-18.amzn2.1.x86_64
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-18.amzn2.1.x86_64