CVE-2018-1116

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.

Date published : 2018-07-10

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364