RHSA-2022:0268: Important: polkit security update

First published: Tue Jan 25 2022(Updated: )

The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector (CVE-2021-4034)</li> For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
redhat/polkit	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-debuginfo	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-debugsource	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-devel	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-docs	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-libs	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-libs-debuginfo	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-debuginfo	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-debuginfo	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-debugsource	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-debugsource	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-devel	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-devel	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-libs	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-libs	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-libs-debuginfo	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2
redhat/polkit-libs-debuginfo	<0.115-9.el8_1.2	0.115-9.el8_1.2

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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0268 (Advisory)

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