-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: polkit security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0266-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0266 Issue date: 2022-01-25 CVE Names: CVE-2021-4034 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 3. Description: 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. Security Fix(es): * polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector (CVE-2021-4034) 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. 4. Solution: For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 2025869 - CVE-2021-4034 polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4): Source: polkit-0.115-11.el8_4.2.src.rpm aarch64: polkit-0.115-11.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-11.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-11.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-11.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.aarch64.rpm noarch: polkit-docs-0.115-11.el8_4.2.noarch.rpm ppc64le: polkit-0.115-11.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-11.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-11.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-11.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.ppc64le.rpm s390x: polkit-0.115-11.el8_4.2.s390x.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.s390x.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-11.el8_4.2.s390x.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-11.el8_4.2.s390x.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-11.el8_4.2.s390x.rpm polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.s390x.rpm x86_64: polkit-0.115-11.el8_4.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-11.el8_4.2.i686.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-11.el8_4.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-11.el8_4.2.i686.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-11.el8_4.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-11.el8_4.2.i686.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-11.el8_4.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.i686.rpm polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-11.el8_4.2.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4034 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2022-001 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2022 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIVAwUBYfCFOtzjgjWX9erEAQiDbRAAg7MqhjSqhPLnXD6EDEMGQRVn7DBHcXMZ RBlr8tnh6zkG2UDOixNOZfTZIFjO8nyUkn8xu+AoBrrlLl5Ab7YmFR0n2EH1tH2T gzCndWDWa42UwlbydSjoezr+qVhCqRtWbTxSakHNvL4UO4ZswzM7vFPz9JYUXFnE DrbfAV0dhzgQp3GL2IQ4PDMVBtzdulYp+53XJ8fVJQLpgeqVf0Kpoh9x4JechBJG /7C4xyDWmBMf8AXUNYDem1iMmvyji8zUU4+2I71tz2aE+2/kGHtXtqmlNdUbC8Em /TlXsh+KtDcjcr413JKLvq5LD+MpkjSET+HArNoHQfJ1EECn3PT0fDXw+zF6nLTd bksTgEew7tMRTmk3sJBQ5Mkb4XHrHx+tXK1MupMVLRlOsy+pLXG2RKkROkPJe+/U GHKqrb3kXqTMagrUk5BrFCtfaCqq/wUFlBQDQsn6LJDh1t290CkKXzQRVwZSl96d tP0EzRMdJcg92vWumjbFvCgmfh6/BKoJd2xohLxp+FAkooDqKPspILWJDlaFguZ9 EM2luzM+4+OtpKKTiUhivmTul3yl9cJdef0eF7hX48bjunjc9ikznmZvID5b/PR3 nt6seYAVGXjocZPIiRJyi/QGLur9wvvtCY7CljipE2hGGA2j4AohPVkO2Auy9CdT bSrNWt5Hpa0=j6Hu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list RHSA-announce@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce