Vigil@nce - PolicyKit: privilege escalation via INT_MAX uid
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 07/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via INT_MAX uid of PolicyKit,
in order to escalate his privileges.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/PolicyKit-privilege-escalation-via-INT-MAX-uid-27980