openSUSE Security Update: Security update for polkit
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1734-1
Rating: important
References: #933922 #935119 #939246 #943816
Cross-References: CVE-2015-3218 CVE-2015-3255 CVE-2015-3256
CVE-2015-4625
Affected Products:
openSUSE 13.2
openSUSE 13.1
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An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

Polkit was updated to 0.113 to fix four security issues.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

* CVE-2015-4625: a local privilege escalation due to predictable
authentication session cookie values. (boo#935119)
* CVE-2015-3256: various memory corruption vulnerabilities in use of the
JavaScript interpreter, possibly leading to local privilege escalation.
(boo#943816)
* CVE-2015-3255: a memory corruption vulnerability in handling duplicate
action IDs, possibly leading to local privilege escalation. (boo#939246)
* CVE-2015-3218: Allowed any local user to crash polkitd. (boo#933922)

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-655=1

– openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-655=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use “zypper patch”.

Package List:

– openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

libpolkit0-0.113-3.8.1
libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1
polkit-0.113-3.8.1
polkit-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1
polkit-debugsource-0.113-3.8.1
polkit-devel-0.113-3.8.1
polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.113-3.8.1
typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-3.8.1

– openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64):

libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-3.8.1
libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-3.8.1

– openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):

polkit-doc-0.113-3.8.1

– openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

libpolkit0-0.113-9.1
libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-9.1
polkit-0.113-9.1
polkit-debuginfo-0.113-9.1
polkit-debugsource-0.113-9.1
polkit-devel-0.113-9.1
polkit-devel-debuginfo-0.113-9.1
typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-9.1

– openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-9.1
libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-9.1

– openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

polkit-doc-0.113-9.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3218.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3255.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3256.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4625.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/933922
https://bugzilla.suse.com/935119
https://bugzilla.suse.com/939246
https://bugzilla.suse.com/943816

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