Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2019-08-01 15:35
Modified
2019-08-01 15:35
Summary
Security update for polkit

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for polkit
Description of the patch
This update for polkit fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-6133: Fixed improper caching of auth decisions, which could bypass uid checking in the interactive backend (bsc#1121826).
Patchnames
SUSE-2019-2035,SUSE-Storage-5-2019-2035
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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