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* Is Guix vulnerable to this polkit CVE?
@ 2021-06-10 22:35 jbranso
  2021-06-10 22:56 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: jbranso @ 2021-06-10 22:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel, guix-security

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I just found this article on polkit having a CVE:

https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/ (https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/)
It looks pretty nasty...

" The vulnerability enables an unprivileged local user to get a root shell on the system. It’s easy to exploit with a few standard command line tools, as you can see in this short video (https://youtu.be/QZhz64yEd0g). In this blog post, I’ll explain how the exploit works and show you where the bug was in the source code. "
In the hacker news comments it is fixed in:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462247 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462247)

Polkit version 0.119 fixes it, here's the diff: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/a04d13... (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/a04d13affe0fa53ff618e07aa8f57f4c0e3b9b81)
You all awesome devs have probably already fixed it, but I am just emailing to make sure.

Thanks!

Joshua

"Aim for stars...because even if you'll fall at least you'll fall on Uranus."

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* Is Guix vulnerable to this polkit CVE?
@ 2021-06-10 23:00 Leo Prikler
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Leo Prikler @ 2021-06-10 23:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jbranso; +Cc: guix-devel

Guix commit 9178566954cc7f34d2d991d31df4565adad93508 ought to fix this
with a patch and graft.  If you haven't updated already, consider doing
so.  If you want to play with polkit, you can always roll back :P



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