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
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
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-0.112-22.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