CVE-2018-1116

Publication date

2018-07-10 19:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.