oss-security - Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

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Message-Id: <F9283FD4-A0FC-4944-8659-530684BB33F8@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:04:49 +0000
From: Sam James <sam@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's
 pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)



> On 25 Jan 2022, at 17:57, Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@...lys.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Qualys Security Advisory
> pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
> [snip]

Hi,

For the benefit of downstreams: patch is available in gitlab [0]
but no release yet.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/a2bf5c9c83b6ae46cbd5c779d3055bff81ded683

Best,
sam

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