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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 11, 2019· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2019-6133

CVE-2019-6133

Description

In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

Affected products

69

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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