[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#918985: policykit-1: CVE-2019-6133: temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-23
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/19
Control: found -1 0.105-18

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for policykit-1.

CVE-2019-6133[0]:
polkit: temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6133
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6133
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/19
[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1692
[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/c898fdf4b1aafaa04f8ada9d73d77c8bb76e2f81

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore