Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.843594
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu Update for policykit-1 USN-3717-1
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'policykit-1'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'policykit-1' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Tavis Ormandy discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled certain invalid object paths. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PolicyKit to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-3218) It was discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled certain duplicate action IDs. A local attacker could use this issue to cause PolicyKit to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-3255) Tavis Ormandy discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled duplicate cookie values. A local attacker could use this issue to cause PolicyKit to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-4625) Matthias Gerstner discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly checked users. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause authentication dialogs to show up for other users, leading to a denial of service or an information leak. (CVE-2018-1116) Affected Software/OS: policykit-1 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Solution: Please install the updated packages. CVSS Score: 4.6 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-3218 BugTraq ID: 76086 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76086 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161721.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162294.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000420.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000421.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:1734 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:1927 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-1/ Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-3255 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-07 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/ Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-4625 BugTraq ID: 75267 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75267 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/08/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/21 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000419.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-June/000427.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-1116 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html
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