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Severity: High
Title: Polkit: Local privilege escalation
Date: January 27, 2022
Bugs: #832057
ID: 202201-01

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability in polkit could lead to local root privilege escalation.

Background
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polkit is a toolkit for managing policies related to unprivileged
processes communicating with privileged process.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 sys-auth/polkit < 0.120-r2 >= 0.120-r2

Description
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Flawed input validation of arguments was discovered in the 'pkexec'
program's main() function.

Impact
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A local attacker could achieve root privilege escalation.

Workaround
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Run the following command as root:
# chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec

Resolution
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Upgrade Polkit to a patched version.

emerge --ask --verbose ">=sys-auth/polkit-0.120-r2"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2021-4034
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4034

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202201-01

Concerns?
=========

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2022 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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